The word "wooer" is correct and usable in written English.
You would use it when referring to someone who is attempting to persuade someone else, especially in a romantic context. For example, "He was a true wooer, writing her love letters and showering her with gifts."
As in the work of his models, Shakespeare's early comedies revel in stories of amorous courtship in which a plucky and admirable young woman (played by a boy actor) is paired off against her male wooer.
She is able to instruct Romeo in the ways of speaking candidly and unaffectedly about their love rather than in the frayed cadences of the Petrarchan wooer.
And woe betide the wooer who takes such snarks at face value.
Leaving aside that Rory is unmarried and childless (he is known as a dazzling, sonnet-wielding wooer of beautiful women but not a great builder of long-term relationships), he can be regarded as an ideal son.
The wooer was Kenneth Branagh, who was casting his all-star movie version of "Hamlet".
The former wooer of starlets, known for proposing, years ago, that the state launch its own space satellite, had become a policy wonk whose most eccentric habit was occasionally posting Twitter photos of his dog.
There's also a browsable electronic version of the Kilmarnock Edition, the first published collection of Burns's works, which gave me the insight that even that volume, from 1786, was published with a glossary so readers unfamiliar with Scots words such as dowie, spairge, wooer-bab, ramfeezl'd, breef and limmer* might receive enlightenment.
*According to the glossary of the Kilmarnock Edition, dowie means "crazy and dull"; spairge "to spurt about like water or mire, to soil"; wooer-bab "the garter knotted below the knee with a couple of loops and ends"; ramfeezl'd "overspent"; breef "an invulnerable charm; limmer "a woman of easy virtue".
Here's Amy Poehler's rap, with Palin as backup woo-wooer (I have to say, the moose bit still cracks me up): James Surowiecki is the author of "The Wisdom of Crowds" and writes about economics, business, and finance for the magazine.
Here's Amy Poehler's rap, with Palin as backup woo-wooer (I have to say, the moose bit still cracks me up): The buzz over Sarah Palin's Saturday Night Live has long since been eclipsed by the to-do over her $150,000 wardrobe.
Though they naturally distrust their private-equity wooers, ITV's share price is surely in need of a serious jolt.
