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单词 shoo
释义
shoo1 interjectionshoo2 verb
shooshoo1 /ʃuː/ interjection Word Origin
WORD ORIGINshoo1
Origin:
1400-1500 Natural sound
used to tell an animal or a child to go away
shoo1 interjectionshoo2 verb
shooshoo2 verb [transitive always + adverb/preposition] informal Verb Table
VERB TABLE
shoo
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyshoo
he, she, itshooes
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyshooed
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave shooed
he, she, ithas shooed
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad shooed
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill shoo
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have shooed
Continuous Form
PresentIam shooing
he, she, itis shooing
you, we, theyare shooing
PastI, he, she, itwas shooing
you, we, theywere shooing
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been shooing
he, she, ithas been shooing
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been shooing
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be shooing
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been shooing
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • He prescribed a painkiller and suggested she keep busy, then he shooed her away and chided her for malingering.
  • I come outside and shoo Grandpa off the mower again.
  • Johnny knew that was wrong, and with his stick, he tried to shoo the goats out.
  • Just this week, the City Council decided to use the police like a big swinging tail to shoo away insects.
  • She shooed him, and he skipped away, but not without hooting behind his hand.
  • Soon there would be the little clutch of spectators, the curious children shooed away by the adults, the Press photographers.
  • These were the days when rock was being shooed out in disgrace, a lumpen confusion of scratched armpits and muddled motives.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
· Soon there would be the little clutch of spectators, the curious children shooed away by the adults, the Press photographers.· Just this week, the City Council decided to use the police like a big swinging tail to shoo away insects.· A greyhound cocked his leg against the table and was promptly shooed away.· In the United States, volunteers are shooed away from spill cleanup, deemed too toxic for unprotected citizens.· Instead of spending money in town, soldiers now dig foxholes along lakes in parks and shoo away camera-toting visitors.· He notes that his lawyers regularly shoo away concessionaires who use images of the Empire State Building without permission.· First, they were shooed away from the main entrance.· We soothed fevered brows with cool hands and shooed away demons with a look.
to make an animal or a child go away, especially because they are annoying youshoo somebody away/out etc He shooed the kids out of the kitchen.
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