shoo

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʃuː/ Rhymes: -uː Homophones: shoe, SHU === Etymology 1 === 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”). ==== Verb ==== shoo (third-person singular simple present shoos, present participle shooing, simple past and past participle shooed) (transitive, informal) To induce someone or something to leave. (intransitive, informal) To leave under inducement. (informal, rare) To usher someone. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Interjection ==== shoo! (informal, demeaning) Go away! Clear off! Synonyms: see Thesaurus:go away ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English scho, sheo, scheo, sȝheo, from Old English hēo (“she”). More at she. ==== Pronoun ==== shoo (Yorkshire) Alternative form of she. === See also === honk-shoo === Anagrams === Hoos, SOHO, soho, SoHo, Soho, oh-so, oh so, oohs == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Sussex ==== shoo (Sussex) alternative form of sche (“she”) === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== shoo alternative form of scho (“shoe”) === Etymology 3 === ==== Verb ==== shoo alternative form of schon (“to shoe”) == Navajo == === Interjection === shoo I see; oh yes, I see ==== Derived terms ==== áníłʼį́ shoo geʼ shoo == Swahili == === Etymology === Borrowed from English show. === Pronunciation === === Noun === shoo class IX (plural shoo class X) show (performance) == Swedish == === Interjection === shoo (slang) alternative form of sho (“hi”) === References === Slangopedia == Yola == === Alternative forms === shu, shea, she, sh' === Etymology === From Middle English scho, sche, from Old English hēo, hīo, from Proto-West Germanic *hiju. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʃuː/, /ʃiː/, /ʃ/ === Pronoun === shoo she ==== Derived terms ==== shea's === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 67