whois

English

Pronunciation
  • (UK English) IPA(key): /ˈhuːˌɪz/

Noun

whois (usually uncountable, plural whoises)

  1. (Internet) The WHOIS protocol or service.

Verb

whois (third-person singular simple present whoises, present participle whoising, simple past and past participle whoised)

  1. (Internet, transitive) To look up using a whois protocol.
    We whoised the domain to find out who was sending the spam.
    • 2003, "Joel", Re: A whois addon (on newsgroup alt.irc.dalnet)
      That seems to be an undocumented feature, but makes perfect sense. Of course, that wouldn't prevent you from whoising 20 people at once, which could be a problem.

Anagrams

Middle English

Pronoun

whois

  1. (chiefly Late Middle English) Alternative form of whos (“whose”, genitive)
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