shoo
verb/ʃuː/
/ʃuː/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they shoo | /ʃuː/ /ʃuː/ |
| he / she / it shoos | /ʃuːz/ /ʃuːz/ |
| past simple shooed | /ʃuːd/ /ʃuːd/ |
| past participle shooed | /ʃuːd/ /ʃuːd/ |
| -ing form shooing | /ˈʃuːɪŋ/ /ˈʃuːɪŋ/ |
- shoo somebody/something (+ adv./prep.) to make somebody/something go away or to another place, especially by saying ‘shoo’ and waving your arms and hands
- He shooed the dog out of the kitchen.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryShoo is used with these nouns as the object:- fly
Word Origina natural exclamation: first recorded in late Middle English. The verb use dates from the early 17th cent.Definitions on the go
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