woz
/wəz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.27 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Eye dialect spelling of was.
name
A nickname from the given name Warren.
Example Sentences
- ""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'."
- "'If she woz mine' - tapping a brick - 'I'd bash 'er 'ed in!'"
- "We woz robbed, Brian."
- "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."
- "In 1973, Woz was working for Hewlett-Packard. His dial-a-joke service got more than 2,000 calls a day."
Etymology
From was, wuz.
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.