shoo

• IPA^(key): /ʃuː/

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophones: shoe, SHU

Compare Dutch schuwen (“to shun”), German scheuchen (“to scare, drive away”).

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.

• shoo away
• shoo-in
• shoo off

shoo!

1. (informal, demeaning) Go away! Clear off!

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:go away

shoo

1. (Yorkshire) Alternative form of she
   • 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter II, in Wuthering Heights‎, New York: Harper Brothers, published 1855, OCLC 71126926, page 15:

     Hearken, hearken, shoo’s cursing on em!” muttered Joseph, towards whom I had been steering.

• SOHO, SoHo, Soho, oh so, oohs, soho

shoo

1. Alternative form of scho (“shoe”)

shoo

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

shoo

1. I see; oh yes, I see

• áníłʼį́ shoo
• geʼ shoo

Borrowed from English show.

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shoo (n class, plural shoo)

1. show (performance)

• shea, shu

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

shoo

1. she

• shea's

• 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