Is it similar to wow except for the last w? More alternatives can be found here. Often, wow is positive and whoa is negative
‘Whoa’ or ‘Woah’?
Wow is a reaction to a big surprise (i am impressed), and whoa means please stop (which maybe due to my surprise.) however, with irony, i can say wow, you made a big mistake, or you are going to wow them with your bright tie, but is that really the best choice for a job interview?
Finding the precise history of the idiom, a piece of cake, is no picnic as i discovered
The idioms.com and bloomsbury international (a british language school), its or. The oed lists woah as a variant of woa which is a variant of whoa. I don't remember ever seeing the woah spelling (i'd want to pronounce it as two syllables Searching just uk sites, one gets ~170,000 hits for woah and ~255,000 for whoa.
John's awesomesauce weekend in vegas ended prematurely And he prayed with such authority that my prayers felt like weak sauce by comparison How did the words awesomesauce and weak sauce originat. I'm having a bad day
I have been followed by a velociraptor the entire day
How many mirrors did you break/ladders did you walk under on your way to work For black cats, because it is a bit clumsy somehow to say 'did a black cat cross your path?' many brits might make a joke of it with 'how many black cats did you kick on your way. For example, when someone dresses with colorful and flashy clothes and you say who are you, liberace? Or when someone says something smart and you say woah, hold it there, brainiac!.
I believe it is primarily an american phrase, used as an exclamation I would never do such a thing What is the origin of that phrase Do we know who betsy is?
This article in slate states
The phrase has stumped scholars and lone ranger fans alike for years, and there appears to be no conclusive evidence as to its true definition or its roots However, another site (written by a specialist in siouan languages) asserts The word kemosabe is from an algonquian language similar to ojibwe (a complex of related dialects extending from. One authority which usefully distinguishes between the virgule (also called a slash) and the solidus is robert bringhurst's the elements of typography
He notes the higher verticality of the virgule, which he calls an alternative form of the comma (p.81) It's used as a general separatrix, in dates, and when naming alternatives (either/or) (though this last usage is. — woah, what just happened — yeah, what did just happen
This is a different use of ‘do’, of course, where the main verb is emphasised
Similarly, you could also say, “who did do that?” as an emphatic variant of “who did that?”.
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