Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- interj. Expressing happiness or approval.
- interj. common misspelling of hoot. common misspelling of w00t. An exclamation of joy or excitement.
Etymologies
- See w00t (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Angus Stevenson Editor, Concise Oxford English Dictionary "The expression 'woot' began in America but was picked up very quickly by people in Britain, as a result of the internet breaking down international boundaries," said Mr Stevenson.”
“Yes | No | Report from Richie wrote 45 weeks 5 days ago no i will reiterate for u one more time kill the damn thing keep on killin woot! woot!”
When you catch a Racoon or oppossom in a live trap what do you do with it?
“Already, grades are being posted - B+ in Spanish, woot woot!”
“To whom it may concern: The all day caffeine rush for your credit card, known as a woot-off in some circles, is going on now. [woot!]”
“I've posted daily deals in the past from a site called woot, com, when I thought that the item ...”
“I'll second Race's "woot" and make it a double-woot!”
“Talking to IT students about the cultural heritage sector, and a small 'woot”
“No one who actually read Preacher would say 'woot'.”
“Open Objects: Talking to IT students about the cultural heritage sector, and a small 'woot' skip to main | skip to sidebar”
Talking to IT students about the cultural heritage sector, and a small 'woot'
“Watch any other video of a panel and you'll hear respective silence apart from the laughter and occasional "woot" s.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘woot’.
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one word exclamations
keep it rated G please, thanks!
( open list, randomness )zoiks, sheesh, gosh, shucks, jeez, woot, heck, thunderation, oops, gadzooks, what, hey and 90 more...
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like words duh
almost-words teens/tweens use --or -- actualy words they use incorrectly
duh, no duh, duh, no duh, gwon, sh'up, nu-uh, iknow-a, no-a, ow-a, yup, s'up, c'moooon and 25 more...
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vmarinelli's Words
canard, gumption, inexorable, insouciance, inviolable, mordant, euphonious, sawbuck, carpe diem, pay dirt, adipocere, profligate and 496 more...
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End in -ot
Just what it says. Words that end in -ot.
wainscot, ascot, marmot, jot, ocelot, spot, blot, scot, lot, shot, dot, snot and 219 more...
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ifea_need_help's Words
irk, porn, woot, pfft, fuck, swelter, homonculus, astronomical, booboo, capitulate, liquidation, pendulum and 30 more...
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joshleejosh's Words
inchoate, garner, oft, hydrocephalitic, twee, dorktacular, tic, discourse, coded, avuncular, maleficent, saguaro and 46 more...
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Inguriddo's list
linger, smooth, devour, excruciating, totally, bogus, wreck, labyrinth, complexity, reserved, vanish, disappear and 33 more...
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bhell13's Words
special, vapid, callous, exacerbate, juxtapose, moribund, sporadic, props, mortgage, woot, cretin, random and 8 more...
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Cringe List
No. Just no.
"Slang, though humanly irreverent, tends to be inhumanly loveless. It lacks tenderness and compassion; its poetry has the effulgence of a soldier's brass buttons."
...woot, w00t, anyways, whatever, totes, booyah, sick, ill, nom, anyhoo, frickin', jeebus and 81 more...
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Words I don't like
crisp, toes, bugaboo, taut, frickin, schmear, winningest, knapsack, supper, tumbler, pee, soap scum and 22 more...
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Words I never used before the Internet
Words I never used before the Internet
omg, zomg, pwned, pwnage, internet, lol, rotflmao, flamebait, asshat, cu l8r, haxor, website and 29 more...
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jenlight's Words
jenlight, absurd, dada, pataphysics, thirteen, seven, beldam, onymous, smellfeast, borborygmi, orly, zomg and 34 more...
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shineyquarter's Words
onomatopoeia, lurk, shiny, fishy, wikipedia, umbrella, swoosh, squee, ambrosia, flummery, woot
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winterdeep's Words
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words I use because of livejournal
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Hateful words
empower, work, woot, motivation, i'm not racist, b..., going forward, sustainable devel..., staycation, quantitative easing, people person
Tweets
Looking for tweets for woot.
abbott.costello used as an exclamation, similar to "woo hoo" Jul 25, 2009
e_eric The geek's equivalent to 'yay'. There are many possible origins, but I like the gamer one best: a contraction of "wow, loot!" in either tabletop RPG D&D or the MMORPG Everquest. Jun 17, 2009
charlesj68 An expression of delight or excitement, especially over having achieved some goal. Jun 10, 2009
zeravlar 1) short for "Wow, loot!" in the context of D&D gaming.
2) An interjection similar to "YAYE!" or "Woohoo!" used to express joy or excitement, usually about some kind of accomplishment. Jun 9, 2009
DKroner Woot is an exclamation of positive excitement.
""w00t" was originally an truncated expression common among players of Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game for "Wow, loot!" Thus the term passed into the net-culture where it thrived in video game communities and lost its original meaning and is used simply as a term of excitement. "
"An interjection similar to "YAYE!" or "Woohoo!" used to express joy or excitement, usually about some kind of accomplishment. Primarily used by gamers, spreading rapidly to anyone who chats online "
-Urban Dictionary Jun 8, 2009
reesetee I'm with bilby. Woot is nice, even fun. On the other hand, w00t drives me batty.
I can't sue you. I don't have enough money. Dec 20, 2007
bilby I don't mind woot as a an interjection something more forceful than hehe and lesser than wow. The zeroes are just ... dull. I mean, go into a chat room and the first thing you see are things like "any1 wanna chat", "2day" and so on. Ditto for text messages. Numbers are part of net/message speak and there's nothing Word Of The Year in that observation. BUT, they have not made any break beyond their jargon-riddled domains and show no sign of doing so. Consider the following:
"I thank for your letter confirming my employment at Bugger The World Industries and I will return the attached contract in due course. w00t. I look forward to being introduced to my new colleagues on Monday."
It just doesn't work. w00t is a discardism and internet culture is full of them. Imagine if you were unplugged tomorrow and never connected to the internet again ... would lol ever cross your mind or your lips?
The only dilemma with w00t is which b1n to dump it in. In a year I'll find it hard to remember how quickly I forgot this 'word' (and I use the term, l00sely). Dec 20, 2007
chained_bear I like woot. Sue me. Dec 20, 2007
reesetee True, true. But Chaucer never spelled it with two zeros, did he? Yikes. Dec 13, 2007
vanishedone But posting here lets us set up Chaucerian references:
'But what they were, nothyng he ne woot.
This duc his courser with his spores smoot...' Dec 13, 2007
reesetee Yes, that's true. Oh, if only they'd waited for us to decide on Wordie's Word of the Year--it would be so much better! Dec 13, 2007
postnomer I think I read that Merriam Webster declared w00t the word of the year... Dec 13, 2007
lampbane It's okay, I'm not shedding any tears over it... woot. Dec 12, 2007
vanishedone Oops, I completely overlooked that line. Sorry about that. Dec 12, 2007
lampbane VanishedOne: I already posted that link. Dec 12, 2007
reesetee Nor have I ever been. Dec 12, 2007
bilby I am not a wooter. Dec 12, 2007
vanishedone There's some nice etymological commentary on woot/w00t/whoot at The Lexicographer's Rules. Dec 12, 2007
lampbane Contrary to what Merriam-Webster says, this word is not an acronym for "We Owned the Other Team." (I've never even heard of that before.) That would be a backronym.
See Grant Barrett's history of the term. Dec 12, 2007
abraxaszugzwang w00t used to bother me, but I've come around. I'm a cantankerous old man at the keyboard. Mar 2, 2007