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shoo

English

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Etymology 1

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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

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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

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shoo!

  1. (informal, demeaning) Go away! Clear off!
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:go away
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English scho, sheo, scheo, sȝheo, from Old English hēo (“she”). More at she.

Pronoun

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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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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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shoo

  1. Alternative form of scho (“shoe”)

Etymology 2

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Verb

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shoo

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

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shoo

  1. I see; oh yes, I see

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Swahili

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English show.

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Noun

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shoo (n class, plural shoo)

  1. show (performance)

Swedish

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Interjection

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shoo

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

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Yola

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

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Proper noun

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shoo

  1. she
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 63:
      Quo shoo.
      Says she.
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14, page 90:
      Jaane got leigheen; shoo pleast aam all, fowe?
      Joan set them a laughing, she pleased them all, how?
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14, page 90:
      Shoo ya aam zim to doone, as w' be doone nowe;
      She gave them some to do, as we are doing now;
    • 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 108:
      Shoo zent him o' die.
      She sent him one day.
    • 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 108:
      Shoo zent him anoor die a gozleen to keep;
      She sent him another day the goslings to keep;

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 67
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