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Definition of shoo in English: shooexclamation ʃuːʃu A word said to frighten or drive away a person or animal. ‘Shoo,’ said Mrs Beavis to her girls, and the passage emptied Example sentencesExamples - Oh, and if you haven't read the first part, ‘Millie’, shoo!
verbshooing, shooed, shoos ʃuːʃu with object and adverbial of direction Make (a person or animal) go away by waving one's arms at them, saying ‘shoo’, or otherwise acting in a discouraging manner. I went to comfort her but she shooed me away Example sentencesExamples - We tried to help them but she just shooed us out of the way and told us she could do it herself.
- She shoos me out of her nice clean treatment room and I totter off feeling not exactly relaxed.
- She shooed her kids into the play area and came over to sit down on the bench.
- He said he tried to refute a senior police officer briefing reporters, but he was shooed away by other policemen.
- I remember my mother shooing us, silently, into the basement, her grabbing the cast iron skillet and standing to the side of the door.
- The instructor interrupts his advance, shooing him away.
- In the rocks above the flat roofs, I pass a shepherd girl shooing sheep along the mountainside.
- He drags on his cigarette and, as if we hadn't been speaking, raises his eyes to the screens and silently shoos me out of his way.
- Then I discovered he compensated by eating mostly meat and I shooed him out the door.
- Policemen shooed us away from near the lake not out of being perverse but because a great big tree had fallen down and blocked the road.
- Finally, a March organizer shooed us along the route as we were falling behind.
- I spent two years shooing him away and looking at him like he was nuts before I realised he was a drug dealer.
- Ryan scowled at the young man and shooed him away with a wave of his hand.
- He shooed the crowds away to give him privacy, then took the Canadian soldier by the arm, led him inside and began washing him off.
- And you've seen barefoot children being shooed out of a shopping mall by security guards.
- With a swift and playful push, she shooed Daniel out, promising him to take only ten minutes.
- Waving his hand, he shooed us off before returning to bark at the rest of the class to warm-up.
- Maggie doesn't hide her animosity towards her father, and despite her daughters' curiosity, shoos him out as fast as she can.
- My mother would screech at my father for being so easily fooled, but he just shooed me along and I was on my way.
- My teacher shooed him away, but in her red eyes we sensed that he wasn't lying.
Synonyms go away, depart, leave, take off, get out, get out of my sight
Origin A natural exclamation: first recorded in late Middle English. The verb use dates from the early 17th century. Rhymes accrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, ballyhoo, bamboo, bedew, bestrew, billet-doux, blew, blue, boo, boohoo, brew, buckaroo, canoe, chew, clew, clou, clue, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockatoo, construe, coo, Corfu, coup, crew, Crewe, cru, cue, déjà vu, derring-do, dew, didgeridoo, do, drew, due, endue, ensue, eschew, feu, few, flew, flu, flue, foreknew, glue, gnu, goo, grew, halloo, hereto, hew, Hindu, hitherto, how-do-you-do, hue, Hugh, hullabaloo, imbrue, imbue, jackaroo, Jew, kangaroo, Karroo, Kathmandu, kazoo, Kiangsu, knew, Kru, K2, kung fu, Lahu, Lanzhou, Lao-tzu, lasso, lieu, loo, Lou, Manchu, mangetout, mew, misconstrue, miscue, moo, moue, mu, nardoo, new, non-U, nu, ooh, outdo, outflew, outgrew, peekaboo, Peru, pew, plew, Poitou, pooh, pooh-pooh, potoroo, pursue, queue, revue, roo, roux, rue, Selous, set-to, shampoo, shih-tzu, shoe, shrew, Sioux, skean dhu, skew, skidoo, slew, smew, snafu, sou, spew, sprue, stew, strew, subdue, sue, switcheroo, taboo, tattoo, thereto, thew, threw, thro, through, thru, tickety-boo, Timbuktu, tiramisu, to, to-do, too, toodle-oo, true, true-blue, tu-whit tu-whoo, two, vendue, view, vindaloo, virtu, wahoo, wallaroo, Waterloo, well-to-do, whereto, whew, who, withdrew, woo, Wu, yew, you, zoo Definition of shoo in US English: shooexclamationʃuSHo͞o A word said to frighten or drive away a person or animal. Example sentencesExamples - Oh, and if you haven't read the first part, ‘Millie’, shoo!
verbʃuSHo͞o with object and adverbial of direction Make (a person or animal) go away by waving one's arms at them, saying “shoo,” or otherwise acting in a discouraging manner. I went to comfort her but she shooed me away Example sentencesExamples - And you've seen barefoot children being shooed out of a shopping mall by security guards.
- My teacher shooed him away, but in her red eyes we sensed that he wasn't lying.
- I remember my mother shooing us, silently, into the basement, her grabbing the cast iron skillet and standing to the side of the door.
- He said he tried to refute a senior police officer briefing reporters, but he was shooed away by other policemen.
- In the rocks above the flat roofs, I pass a shepherd girl shooing sheep along the mountainside.
- Then I discovered he compensated by eating mostly meat and I shooed him out the door.
- The instructor interrupts his advance, shooing him away.
- He drags on his cigarette and, as if we hadn't been speaking, raises his eyes to the screens and silently shoos me out of his way.
- Policemen shooed us away from near the lake not out of being perverse but because a great big tree had fallen down and blocked the road.
- She shoos me out of her nice clean treatment room and I totter off feeling not exactly relaxed.
- She shooed her kids into the play area and came over to sit down on the bench.
- He shooed the crowds away to give him privacy, then took the Canadian soldier by the arm, led him inside and began washing him off.
- With a swift and playful push, she shooed Daniel out, promising him to take only ten minutes.
- I spent two years shooing him away and looking at him like he was nuts before I realised he was a drug dealer.
- My mother would screech at my father for being so easily fooled, but he just shooed me along and I was on my way.
- Ryan scowled at the young man and shooed him away with a wave of his hand.
- Waving his hand, he shooed us off before returning to bark at the rest of the class to warm-up.
- Maggie doesn't hide her animosity towards her father, and despite her daughters' curiosity, shoos him out as fast as she can.
- Finally, a March organizer shooed us along the route as we were falling behind.
- We tried to help them but she just shooed us out of the way and told us she could do it herself.
Synonyms go away, depart, leave, take off, get out, get out of my sight
Origin A natural exclamation: first recorded in late Middle English. The verb use dates from the early 17th century. |