English

Verb

wooing

1. present participle of woo

   A man giving a gift of roses is wooing a woman.

Noun

wooing ‎(plural wooings)

1. A courting; the process by which somebody is wooed.
   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:

     She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.

   • 2009 June 7, T. Coraghessan Boyle, “The Road Home”, in New York Times:

     The difference here is that the protagonists in this collection are, for the most part, at the end of their lives, and so the news of familial drama and divorce and the cocktail parties, barbecues and casual wooings of quotidian life in suburbia is given retrospectively, wistfully, presented in the larger context as memories of lost moments and lost opportunities.

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