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BNC: 35565 COCA: 21940

shoo

1 shoo /ˈʃuː/ interjection
1 shoo
/ˈʃuː/
interjection
Learner's definition of SHOO
used when repeatedly moving your hand away from you in a short motion with your fingers down to tell an animal or person to leave嘘,去(伴以手势驱赶动物或人)
2 shoo /ˈʃuː/ verb
shoos; shooed; shooing
2 shoo
/ˈʃuː/
verb
shoos; shooed; shooing
Learner's definition of SHOO
[+ object]
: to tell (an animal or person) to leave嘘走;嘘声轰走(动物或人)
BNC: 35565 COCA: 21940

shoo

1 of 2

interjection

used especially in driving away an unwanted animal

shoo

2 of 2

verb

shooed; shooing; shoos

transitive verb

: to scare, drive, or send away by or as if by crying shoo
shooed us away from the kitchen

Example Sentences

Verb We tried to help her, but she shooed us away. He shooed the cat out of the house.
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
When subtlety didn’t work, the Emmys started to play music to try to shoo Coolidge off the stage. Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2022 But the sequence is intended to represent night, and to shoo a night scene during the dy requires blue sky and direct sunlight. San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2022 Having to shoo and swat mosquitoes at the same time? Laura Daily, Washington Post, 6 July 2022 Plop it on Madison Avenue and flustered tourists may shoo it away. Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022 Players occasionally had to shoo them away with their rackets, and bird droppings were an annoyance for groundskeepers. Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2022 Hartley rushed across the camp loop to watch as other campers and Anchorage Health Department workers attempted to shoo the bears away with the airhorn, shouts and clapping. Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2022 But there was no cabin in the woods, no pan-banging to shoo away strangers, nor any little girl holed up in a pioneer dress. The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 May 2022 He, his brother, Clifton, and their younger sister, Georgia, were raised in life jackets and learned survival skills, such as how to dig clams for dinner and shoo away black bears, early on. Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 7 May 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Interjection

Middle English schowe

First Known Use

Interjection

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Verb

circa 1798, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of shoo was in the 15th century
BNC: 35565 COCA: 21940

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