English

Noun

woo woo ‎(plural woo woos)

1. (slang) A person readily accepting supernatural, paranormal, occult, or pseudoscientific phenomena, or emotion-based beliefs and explanations.

   That reporter is a bit of a woo woo.

2. (slang) Those beliefs.

   He is really into all that woo woo.

   • Erikson Physocialsocial Stages

     Social work has gotten distinctly woo-woo lately. There's a lot of endorsement of quackery. I think that might be because the social work profession has attracted a lot of people who don't want to do science, or maybe because there is a big market for woo-woo stuff.

Adjective

woo woo ‎(comparative more woo woo, superlative most woo woo)

1. (slang) Supernatural, unreal.

   He made a living out of woo woo beliefs.

2. (slang) Describing a person readily accepting supernatural, paranormal, occult, or pseudoscientific phenomena, or emotion-based beliefs and explanations.

   Pert is a talented scientist who went woo woo many years ago for reasons I don’t have time to go into here.^[1]

Alternative forms

• woo-woo
• woo

References

• Double-Tongued Dictionary
• Insolitology (The Woo-Woo Dictionary)
• The Woo-Woo Stuff: Musings on the Metaphysical

1. ↑ http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/04/what_the_bleep_.html

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

woo woo ‎(plural woo woos)

1. An alcoholic cocktail consisting of peach schnapps, vodka and cranberry juice.

Etymology 3

Imitative of a siren.

Noun

woo woo ‎(plural woo woos)

1. (childish) the sound of a fire truck, ambulance, or police truck's siren.