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- [shoo]
- /ʃu/
- /ʃuː/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [shoo]
- /ʃu/
Definitions of shoo word
- verb with object shoo to drive away by saying or shouting “shoo.”. 1
- verb with object shoo to request or force (a person) to leave: I'll have to shoo you out of here now. 1
- verb without object shoo to call out “shoo.”. 1
- interjection shoo go away 1
- intransitive verb shoo go away, leave 1
- transitive verb shoo chase, drive away 1
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Origin of shoo
First appearance:
before 1475 One of the 25% oldest English words
1475-85; earlier showe, shough, shooh, ssou (interjection), imitative; compare German schu
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Shoo
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
shoo popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 83% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
shoo usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for shoo
interj shoo
- aways — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- be off — leave
- begone — go away!
- get going — an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal: the get of a stallion.
- git — British Slang. a foolish or contemptible person.
interjection shoo
- away — If someone or something moves or is moved away from a place, they move or are moved so that they are no longer there. If you are away from a place, you are not in the place where people expect you to be.
- depart — When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
- hightail — to go away or leave rapidly: Last we saw of him, he was hightailing down the street.
- leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- off — so as to be no longer supported or attached: This button is about to come off.
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