Why Do ‘Woo Girls’ Woo?

Interpretations behind the meaning of their screams.

Rosemary Loshin
3 min readJun 2, 2020
Photo by Ben White on Unsplash

Two houses and one whole apartment complex down the street, I can still hear them. The high pitched WOOOO’s break my concentration, although I feel like I should be used to it and able to tune it out by now.

I melodramatically roll my eyes because that’s all I can do.

Working from home in a global pandemic is hard when people are still determined to have fun. How dare they! How am I supposed to organize my soap collection with all this ruckus going on?

“A woo girl is the type of young woman who, like the cuckoobird or the whip-poor-will, gets her name from the signature sound she makes. A woo can be elicited in many different ways: from a certain song coming on the jukebox, to half-priced shots, or well, pretty much anything.”

-Ted Mosby from HIMYM

Life must be really exciting in that corner house because the two girls that live there have perfected the art of wooing. They’ve had a lot of practice.

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Rosemary Loshin

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