noun — 5 senses
/ˈdʌb.(ə)l.juː/ · /ˌdʌb.əlˈjuː/
Etymology Inherited from Middle English doble W, in reference to the letter's origins as a ligature of two Us or Vs (V originally being a typographical variant of U). The failure of the sequence /bljuː/ to simplify in this word's bisyllabic pronunciation (as in blue) is doubtlessly due to the letter U's name. For colloquial pronunciations without /l/, compare Straya.
The name of the Latin script letter W/w.
Alternative, Name Alternative name of the Latin-script digraph ⟨UU⟩.
Euphemistic The WC; the toilet.
Alternative Alternative form of double-u.
something in the shape of two U's (not of a W)
Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for double-u and double U.