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SHOO definition: 1. said to animals or children to make them go away: 2. to make sounds and movements in order to…. Learn more.
The meaning of SHOO is —used especially in driving away an unwanted animal. How to use shoo in a sentence.
1. verb. If you shoo an animal or a person away, you make them go away by waving your hands or arms at them. You'd better shoo him away. [VERB noun with adverb] I shooed him out of the room. [VERB noun preposition] 2. exclamation. You say ' shoo! ' to an animal when you want it to go away. Shoo, bird, shoo.
shoo. verb [ T usually + adv/prep ] informal us / ʃuː / uk / ʃuː / present participle shooing | past tense and past participle shooed. to make sounds and movements in order to send animals or children away: Go and shoo that cat away before it catches a bird.
Shoo definition: (used to scare or drive away a cat, dog, chickens, birds, etc.). See examples of SHOO used in a sentence.
Definition of shoo verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
shoo /ʃu/ interj. (used as a noise to drive away birds, animals, etc.). v. [ ~ + object] to drive away by saying or shouting "shoo'': He shooed the animals into the barn. to request or force (a person) to leave: The principal shooed the students out the door.
shoo meaning, definition, what is shoo: used to tell an animal or a child to go ...: Learn more.
SHOO definition: to make a person or animal leave a place by chasing them or shouting 'shoo' at them. Learn more.
The earliest known use of the verb shoo is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for shoo is from 1622, in the writing of Nicholas Breton, poet. It is also recorded as an interjection from the Middle English period (1150—1500).
