woz

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/wəz/

proper noun

A nickname from the given name Warren.

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Meanings

woz1

verb
  1. pronunciation spellingEye dialect spelling of was.

    We woz robbed, Brian.

    2002, Christopher Brookmyre, Country of the Blind, →ISBN, page 343
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    "You woz saying," said the farmer, with slow, matter of fact, New England deliberation, "ez how you guessed you woz beguiled amongst the Injins by your Mexican partner, a pow'ful influential man, and yet you woz the only one escaped the gen'ral slarterin'.

    1893, Bret Harte, Susy: A Story of the Plains

    'If she woz mine' - tapping a brick - 'I'd bash 'er 'ed in!'

    1894, George Egerton, Discords, page 120

Woz2

proper noun
  1. A nickname from the given name Warren.

    Norton snapped his fingers. Monday's Warren's birthday. That's what I'll do. We'll get a couple of sheilas and I'll shout Woz out for dinner.

    2016, Robert G. Barrett, The Boys from Binjiwunyawunya

Woz3

proper noun
  1. informalNickname for a person with the surname Wozniak.
    1. informalAmerican inventor Steve Wozniak (b. 1950).

      In 1973, Woz was working for Hewlett-Packard. His dial-a-joke service got more than 2,000 calls a day.

      1998 September, Gary Wolf, “The World According to Woz”, in Wired, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2011

Origin

woz · verb

From was, wuz.

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Woz · proper noun

Clipping of Wozniak.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Sounds the same

was (unstressed)
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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