shoo
interjection
(used to scare or drive away a cat, dog, chickens, birds, etc.)
is shooing
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present progressiveof shoo (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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It isn’t fair to speak only of the positive plate which calls, we must speak also of the negative plate which is shooing electrons away from itself.
From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by John Mills
"I understand you to say, do I," resumed Hiram, "that he is shooing them hens—or, at least, condonin' their comin' down into your garden ev'ry day?"
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day
