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Dave Wilton

14 Mar 2025 • 3 min read
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woo-woo

8 December 2025 Ghosts, magic crystals, faeries, homeopathy, Bigfoot, astrology, and the like are all examples of woo-woo or woo. But why are they called that? When and where does the term come from? The Oxford English Dictionary and Green’s Dictionary of Slang both say that woo-woo is onomatopoeia
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