The origins of woot!
According to the fabulous Wikipedia, the perfect go-to source for this kind of information, the exclamation "woot" started as a Dungeons and Dragons bit of jargon contracting the phrase, "Wow! Loot!" and quickly evolved into an expression of joy.
Hackers may be familiar with w00t as a term for root or admin access to a computer, according to the Urban Dictionary.
And careful readers of The Canterbury Tales will find Chaucer using it to mean "know," as he did in line 849 of "The Wife of Bath's Tale" ("For wel I woot thy pacience is gon"), again according to Wikipedia.
Woot!
Hackers may be familiar with w00t as a term for root or admin access to a computer, according to the Urban Dictionary.
And careful readers of The Canterbury Tales will find Chaucer using it to mean "know," as he did in line 849 of "The Wife of Bath's Tale" ("For wel I woot thy pacience is gon"), again according to Wikipedia.
Woot!
posted by vanillagrrl at 9:26 AM
1 Comments:
Saw an alternate spelling in a post the other day: "whoot." I thought that nicely tied the ideas in with other exclamations, like a cross between "whoop" and "hoot."
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