I thought woo was a FRIAM local-ism for the Santa Fe local-ism woo woo now in
urban usage:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=woo+woo
Dean Gerber
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Urban Dictionary: woot.
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Woot originated as a hacker term for root (or administrative) access to a
computer. However, with the term as coincides with the gamer term, "w00t".
"w00t" was originally an trunicated 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.
"I defeated the dark sorcerer! Woot!"
"woot! i r teh flagmastar!" (Think Tribes)
"Woot, I pwnzed this dude's boxen!'
and there's wood, would, woof, Wookie, wool...
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Arlo Barnes <arlo.bar...@gmail.com> wrote:
Compare Urban Dictionary: woot.
>-Arlo James Barnes
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