shoo
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English[edit]
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Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English schew, schowe, show, showe, scou (“shoo!”, interjection). Compare Middle High German schū, schuo (“shoo!”, interjection) (modern German scheu! (“shoo!”)), Dutch schuwen (“to shun”), German scheuchen (“to scare, drive away”).
Verb[edit]
shoo (third-person singular simple present shoos, present participle shooing, simple past and past participle shooed)
- (transitive, informal) To induce someone or something to leave.
- Don't just shoo away mosquitoes, kill them!
- See if you can shoo off the insurance salesmen.
- (intransitive, informal) To leave under inducement.
- You kids had better shoo before your parents get a call.
- (informal, rare) To usher someone.
- Shoo the visitor in.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to induce someone to leave
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usher — see usher
Interjection[edit]
shoo!
- (informal, demeaning) Go away! Clear off!
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:go away
Translations[edit]
go away
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English scho, sheo, scheo, sȝheo, from Old English hēo (“she”). More at she.
Pronoun[edit]
shoo
- (Yorkshire) Alternative form of she
- 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter II, in Wuthering Heights[1], New York: Harper Brothers, published 1855, →OCLC, page 15:
- Hearken, hearken, shoo’s cursing on em!” muttered Joseph, towards whom I had been steering.
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Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
shoo
- Alternative form of scho (“shoe”)
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
shoo
- Alternative form of schon (“to shoe”)
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Interjection[edit]
shoo
- I see; oh yes, I see
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Swahili[edit]
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Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun[edit]
shoo (n class, plural shoo)
- show (performance)
Swedish[edit]
Interjection[edit]
shoo
References[edit]
Yola[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English shoe, from Old English hēo, hīo, from Proto-West Germanic *hiju.
Proper noun[edit]
shoo
- she
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 63:
- Quo shoo.
- Says she.
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 67
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