Liam from San Francisco, California, asks about woo-woo, an adjective for beliefs or practices that strike someone as kooky, mystical, unscientific, or just a little out there. The modern use shows up by the 1980s and 1990s, and an early-1970s...
Grandparent names don’t stop at Grandma and Grampa. After a Baton Rouge newspaper asked readers for unusual family names, the replies filled a “grandparents’ glossary” with forms such as Gammy, Bumpy, Kiki, Monga, Pots, Rah-Rah, and Woo-Woo. Many...
woo-woo adj. concerned with emotions, mysticism, or spiritualism; other than rational or scientific; mysterious; new agey. Also n., a person who has mystical or new age beliefs. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)