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woz

/wəz/

woz is the eye dialect spelling of was.

Meaning of was

Verb

was

  1. (colloquial) Used in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is (usually third-person) plural.
    • There was three of them there.

See all 2 meanings of was

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Woz

Woz

  1. A nickname from the given name Warren.
    • Norton snapped his fingers. Monday's Warren's birthday. That's what I'll do. We'll get a couple of sheilas and I'll shout Woz out for dinner.2016, Robert G. Barrett, The Boys from Binjiwunyawunya

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Woz

Woz

  1. (informal) Nickname for a person with the surname Wozniak.
    1. (informal) American inventor Steve Wozniak (b. 1950).
      • In 1973, Woz was working for Hewlett-Packard. His dial-a-joke service got more than 2,000 calls a day.1998 September, Gary Wolf, “The World According to Woz”, in Wired, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2011

Origin of woz

From was, wuz.

Clipping of Wozniak.

Words formed from woz

Questions about woz

What does woz mean?
Woz means a nickname from the given name Warren.
What is woz the eye dialect spelling of?
Woz is the eye dialect spelling of was.
What part of speech is woz?
Woz is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce woz?
Woz is pronounced /wəz/.

Words near woz in the dictionary

  1. woyotes
  2. woywod
  3. woywode
  4. woywodes
  5. woywods
  6. woz
  7. woz ere
  8. Wozney
  9. Wozniak
  10. Wozniaks
  11. Woznicki

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Adapted from Wiktionary: woz (page history and authors); Woz (page history and authors); was (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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