boo-boo
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of boo-boo
An Americanism dating back to 1950–55; baby talk
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It might be your internet company’s fault, a boo-boo with your home equipment or interference from your neighbor’s Call of Duty game night.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
Some attestation forms seem impractical, requiring parents to interview their pre-school-age children about their health, when some that age can’t distinguish between a boo-boo and a sore throat.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2022
“Then everybody put a boo-boo on that. They said: ‘What are you doing, ratting on about that?’
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2020
But to this young widow he was her “Kobe-Kobe, my boo-boo, my bae-boo, my papi chulo,” she said to the stage-side celebrities and everyday fans in seats high above.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2020
But then she leans in and places a gentle kiss on my stinging cheek, like a mother kissing a little kid’s boo-boo.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
“We have so many animals that have boo-boos in our book,” a brown-haired woman said in a singsong voice, holding up a book called “All Better!”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2023
She has also gotten a couple of mulligans on biographical boo-boos.
From Fox News ● Oct. 9, 2019
And so it was that despite various precautions, the landing in 1991 of military aircraft on the Mall, including a Marine Corps Harrier AV-8B jet, caused some boo-boos.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2018
Epic Fails of 2016 This new special surveys some of the biggest pop-culture boo-boos and celebrity blunders of the past 12 months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2016
After all, leaving the wrong impression is much worse than making a couple of grammatical boo-boos.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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