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interjection
1.
(used to express contempt or disapprobation or to startle or frighten).
noun
2.
an exclamation of contempt or disapproval: a loud boo from the bleachers.
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Boo
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| to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable. |
| to flee; abscond: |
verb (used without object)
3.
to cry boo in derision.
verb (used with object)
4.
to show disapproval of by booing.
Origin:
1810–20; expressive formation
1810–20; expressive formation
Example Sentences
- It is sheer nonsense to suggest that boo is potentially more harmful than than dreck that can be purchased on the local store.
- Rogeregon: wah wah wah, cry cry cry boo hoo hoo everything sucks because our guy lost the last election… wahhhhhhh.
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Word Origin & History
boo
"to startle," early 15c., boh, "A combination of consonant and vowel especially fitted to produce a loud and startling sound" [OED, which compares L. boare, Gk. boaein "to cry aloud, roar, shout."]; as an expression of disapproval, 1801 (n.), 1816 (v.); hence, the verb meaning "shower someone with boos"
EXPAND(1893). To say boo "open one's mouth, speak," originally was to say boo to a goose.
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| BOO Bootes (constellation) |
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