woo woo

woo woo
1. noun /wu.wu/
a) A person readily accepting supernatural, paranormal, occult, or pseudoscientific phenomena, or emotion-based beliefs and explanations.

That reporter is a bit of a woo woo.

b) Those beliefs.

He is really into all that woo woo.

2. adjective /wu.wu/
a) Supernatural, unrealistic.

He made a living out of woo woo beliefs.

b) Describing a person readily accepting supernatural, paranormal, occult, or pseudoscientific phenomena, or emotion-based beliefs and explanations.

Pert is a talented scientist who went woo woo many years ago for reasons I don’t have time to go into here.


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