shoo
(used to scare or drive away a cat, dog, chickens, birds, etc.)
to drive away by saying or shouting “shoo.”
to request or force (a person) to leave: I'll have to shoo you out of here now.
to call out “shoo.”
Origin of shoo
1Words that may be confused with shoo
- shoe, shoo
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How to use shoo in a sentence
If many dolphins are getting shooed away from an area or are too scared to eat or reproduce, that could hurt their whole community.
Endangered or just rare? Statistics give meaning to the head counts | Rachel Crowell | August 26, 2021 | Science News For StudentsAs the archaeologists worked, he shooed grazing sheep to make sure they didn’t walk across the site.
How Scotland forged a rare alliance between amateur treasure hunters and archaeologists | Corinne Iozzio | August 24, 2021 | Popular-ScienceBuilt on years of breakthroughs in deep learning, it could pick up all kinds of objects with remarkable accuracy, making it a shoo-in for jobs like sorting products into packages at warehouses.
A new generation of AI-powered robots is taking over warehouses | Karen Hao | August 6, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewThe casting in this movie really is brilliant across the board, and if there were an Oscar for casting, Promising Young Woman would be a shoo-in.
Promising Young Woman’s explosive ending and Best Picture chances, explained | Emily VanDerWerff | April 16, 2021 | VoxBefore the neighbors stepped in to help, Si and his wife would take turns guarding the house each night, hoping their presence would shoo away the teenagers.
An Asian American family was being harassed. Neighbors now stand guard each night at their home. | Sydney Page | February 26, 2021 | Washington Post
Still “Happy,” truthfully, should have been a shoo-in for Record of the Year given its incessant popularity this past year.
10 Biggest Grammy Award Snubs and Surprises: Meghan Trainor, Miley Cyrus & More | Kevin Fallon | December 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOf course the opposite is true too--if McAuliffe bucks history and wins, then Politico will have to write that HRC is a shoo-in.
The Gyllenhaal siblings are also a shoo-in, though I fear I would jibber and jabber—and possibly giggle—over Jake.
When the rest of us would stand, we could watch parts of the ceremony until security would try to shoo us back to our seats.
The Iron Lady actress bested frontrunner Viola Davis, who seemed a shoo-in for her turn in The Help.
Meryl Streep, ‘The Artist,’ Billy Crystal: Best Moments From 2012 Oscars (VIDEO) | Shannon Donnelly | February 27, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe grotesque fancy came into my head that she would do the same thing if she wanted to shoo some chickens out of a garden.
A Virginia Scout | Hugh PendexterA gust o' win' is skirlin' the noo, and as we luik ower the faem, the haar is risin', weetin' the green swaird wi' misty shoo'rs.
Penelope's Experiences in Scotland | Kate Douglas WigginThe draper wasna certain that so licht a shoo'r could richtly be called rain.
Penelope's Experiences in Scotland | Kate Douglas WigginEvery night at milking time I shoo them out until they finally get it into their heads they are not wanted.
The Red Cow and Her Friends | Peter McArthurCap Pike left the fire to stand guard over the water barrels and shoo the mules away.
The Treasure Trail | Marah Ellis Ryan
British Dictionary definitions for shoo
/ (ʃuː) /
go away!: used to drive away unwanted or annoying people, animals, etc
(tr) to drive away by or as if by crying "shoo."
(intr) to cry "shoo."
Origin of shoo
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