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wonga [wonga 词源字典]: "Money", 1980s: perhaps from Romany wongar 'coal', also 'money'.[wonga etymology, wonga origin, 英语词源]
wodge: "A large piece or amount of something", Mid 19th century: alteration of wedge¹.
wananchi: "(In East Africa) the ordinary people; the public", Kiswahili, plural of mwananchi 'inhabitant, citizen'.
wazoo: "A person’s buttocks or anus", 1960s: of unknown origin.
wors: "Sausage", Afrikaans, from Dutch worst 'sausage'.
whippersnapper: "A young and inexperienced person considered to be presumptuous or overconfident", Late 17th century: perhaps representing whipsnapper, expressing noise and unimportance.
wagoner: "The driver of a horse-drawn wagon", Mid 16th century: from Dutch wagenaar, from wagen (see wagon).
whiting: "A slender-bodied marine fish of the cod family, which lives in shallow European waters and is a commercially important food fish", Middle English: from Middle Dutch wijting, from wijt 'white'.
wowser: "A puritanical or censorious person, in particular a teetotaller or person opposed to alcohol", Late 19th century: of obscure origin.
wizened: "Shrivelled or wrinkled with age", Early 16th century: past participle of archaic wizen 'shrivel', of Germanic origin.
wall eye: "An eye with a streaked or opaque white iris", Early 16th century: back-formation from earlier wall-eyed, from Old Norse vagleygr; related to Icelandic vagl 'film over the eye'.
wigwag: "Move to and fro", Late 16th century: reduplication of wag¹.
woopie: "An affluent retired person able to pursue an active lifestyle", 1980s: elaboration of the acronym from well-off older person.
wayzgoose: "An annual summer dinner or outing held by a printing house for its employees", Mid 18th century (earlier waygoose): of unknown origin.
wabbit: "Exhausted or slightly unwell", Late 19th century: of unknown origin.
Wu: "A dialect of Chinese spoken in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and the city of Shanghai. It has an estimated 80 million speakers", The name in Chinese.
well-cultivated: "Carefully tended or cultivated; highly refined or cultured", Mid 17th cent.; earliest use found in Edward Williams (fl. 1650), author. From well + cultivated.
wilder: "Cause to lose one’s way; lead or drive astray", Early 17th century: origin uncertain; perhaps based on wilderness.
woollen: "Made wholly or partly of wool", Late Old English wullen (see wool, -en²).