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Definition of shoo exclamation from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

shoo

exclamation
 
/ʃuː/
 
/ʃuː/
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  1. used to tell a child or an animal to go away
    • Shoo, all of you, I’m busy!
    Word Origina natural exclamation: first recorded in late Middle English. The verb use dates from the early 17th cent.
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