English Explanatory Dictionary

shoo

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To induce someone or something to leave.
  2. To leave under inducement.
  3. To usher someone.
intj
  1. Go away! Clear off!
pron
  1. Alternative form of she.

Pronunciation

/ʃuː/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-shoo.wav

Word forms

shoo shoos shooing shooed shoo!

Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

amscray away with you be off with you beat it begone bite me bog off bug off bugger off buzz off clear off do one don't let the door hit you on the way out forget you fuck off gertcha get to fuck get bent get fucked get knotted get lost get out of here get outta here get out of my face get screwed get stuffed get you gone git go and boil your head go and eat coke go away go chase yourself go climb a tree go fly a kite go fuck your mother go fuck yourself sideways go fuck yourself go jump in the lake go play in the traffic go play with yourself go shit yourself go suck an egg go tell your mother she wants you go to hell go to Halifax go to the devil hadaway and shite hence hit the road hop it kick rocks jog on leave leave me alone make like a banana and split make like a tree and leave make yourself scarce naff off nick off now go away

Related words

honk-shoo

Derived words

shoo away shooer shoofly pie shoo-fly plant shoo-in shoo off
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