boohoohoo

English

Interjection

boohoohoo!

1. Alternative form of boohoo
   • 1987, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

     Wednesday night alone in bed was the first time I really broke down & had a boo-hoo-hoo cry.

   • 2009, Asterix and Obelix's Birthday: The Golden Book, page 28:

     [a wild boar is laughing and Obelix is crying]
     Wild boar classified a protected species
     First reaction from dismayed costumers:
     “Boohoohoo! Sniff!”