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shoo

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)

  1. (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.
  2. (intransitive, informal) To leave under inducement.
    You kids had better shoo before your parents get a call.
  3. (informal, rare) To usher someone.
    Shoo the visitor in.
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usher — see usher

Interjection edit

shoo!

  1. (informal, demeaning) Go away! Clear off!
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus: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

  1. (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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Noun edit

shoo

  1. Alternative form of scho (“shoe”)

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

shoo

  1. Alternative form of schon (“to shoe”)

Navajo edit

Interjection edit

shoo

  1. I see; oh yes, I see

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Swahili edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English show.

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Noun edit

shoo (n class, plural shoo)

  1. show (performance)

Swedish edit

Interjection edit

shoo

  1. (slang) Alternative form of sho (“hi”)

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Etymology edit

From Middle English shoe, from Old English hēo, hīo, from Proto-West Germanic *hiju.

Proper noun edit

shoo

  1. she
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 63:
      Quo shoo.
      Says she.

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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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