boo hoo

See also: boohoo

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic evoking cries.

Pronunciation

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Interjection

boo hoo

1. The sound of crying.

   "Boo hoo!" cried Lisa after she misplaced her saxophone.

2. (used ironically, spoken as an ordinary word) it is not worth crying about, an expression of contempt

   So you broke it. Boo hoo! Get a grip, and clean up the mess.

Translations

sound of crying

• Catalan: buà, buè
• Chinese: 嗚嗚／呜呜 (zh) (wūwū)
• Dutch: boehoe
• Finnish: yhyy (fi), nyyh
• French: ouin-ouin (fr), bou hou
• German: buhuu
• Greek: μπου-χου (bou-chou)
• Hungarian: brühühü, brűhűhű (elongated)
• Japanese: うえーん
• Korean: 엉엉 (ko) (eong'eong)
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: hu

• Polish: chlip, bu (pl)
• Russian: хнык-хнык (xnyk-xnyk)
• Spanish: snif, bua
• Turkish: ühü
• Vietnamese: hu hu (vi)