Towards a Hermeneutics of “Woo!” and “Hoo!”
Posted: February 19, 2012 Filed under: Discovery, Enthusiasms | Tags: hangover, hermeneutics 3 Comments »In the United States, the nonsense exclamation “Woo!” is often used to proclaim the pleasures of drunkenness. While largely female in usage, not a negligible amount of men employ a robust “Woo!” to signal that the sheet is aloft and caught in a fulsome wind.
Less known, and more useful, is the nonsense syllable “Hoo!” which, when properly and enthusiastically sounded, serves as a palliative for a hangover.
“Hoo!” a fellow exclaims, sitting up in bed, his head wrapped in a pillow. “This is a remarkable hangover!”
The hangover is greeted warmly, embraced, and, so celebrated, subsides. Variants of “Hoo!” are also effective—”Hoo Boy,” for instance, or “Haroooah!”
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Finally! Clear proof that Woohoo! is, in fact, an exocentric compound.
Shoot—I failed to take the “woohoo” compound into account. I live close to a bar, and hear it exclaimed all the time in the parking lot: “Woohoo!” When woo is conjoined to hoo, what then? Perhaps it is an attempt to both celebrate the intoxication, but ward off the specter of the hangover?