Wokey.

Wicked as the Witch of Wokey. Wookey-hole is a noted cavern in Somersetshire, which has given birth to as many weird stories as the Sibylsʹ Cave in Italy. The Witch of Wokey was metamorphosed into stone by a “lerned wight” from Gaston, but left her curse behind, so that the fair damsels of Wokey rarely find “a gallant.” (Percy: Reliques, iii. 14.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Wittington
Witwold
Wives of Literary Men
Wo
Woo or Wooe
Woosh
Woo-tee Dynasty
Woden
Woe to Thee, O Land
Woful
Wokey
Wolf (in music)
Wolf
Wolf
Wolf Men
Wolf-month or Wolf-monath
Wolf’s-bane
Wolves
Wonder
Wonder-worker
Wood