boo-hoo
English
editVerb
editboo-hoo (third-person singular simple present boo-hoos, present participle boo-hooing, simple past and past participle boo-hooed)
- Alternative form of boohoo.
- 1892, Two Hundred Popular Recitations and Readings[1]:
- Two baby carriages, two par uv shoes, two soots uv klothes, two everything, too much! too much! too much! And he fairly boo-hooed.
- 1891, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volumes 53-54[2]:
- Excited leaders of the people denounced it in unmeasured epithet, and the crowd boo-hooed outside its offices in Collins Street, but the writers of the journal went their unmoved way, as British journalists have a knack of doing.