Word Study
shoo
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb shoo has 1 sense
- shoo(v = verb.motion) shoo away, shoo off - drive away by crying `shoo!'; Array is one way to chase away, dispel, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off, turn back
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
CIDE DICTIONARY
shoo, interj. [Cf. G. scheuchen to scare, drive away.].
Begone; away; -- an expression used in frightening away animals, especially fowls. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
shoo, int. & v.
--int. an exclamation used to frighten away birds, children, etc.
--v. (shoos, shooed)
1 intr. utter the word 'shoo!'.
2 tr. (usu. foll. by away) drive (birds etc.) away by shooing.
--int. an exclamation used to frighten away birds, children, etc.
--v. (shoos, shooed)
1 intr. utter the word 'shoo!'.
2 tr. (usu. foll. by away) drive (birds etc.) away by shooing.
Idiom
shoo-in US something easy or certain to succeed.
Etymology
imit.
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