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whoa

[hwoh, woh] Origin

whoa

[hwoh, woh]
interjection
stop! (used especially to horses).

Origin:
1615–25; dialectal variant of ho2
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Whoa is always a great word to know.
So is lollapalooza. Does it mean:
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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whoa (wəʊ)
 
interj
a command used esp to horses to stop or slow down
 
[C19: variant of ho1]

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Word Origin & History

whoa
1623, a cry to call attention from a distance, a variant of who. As a command to stop a horse, it is attested from 1843, a variant of ho. As an expression of delight or surprise (1980s) it has gradually superseded wow, which was very popular 1960s.
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