boohooとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˌbuːˈhuː/

動詞

boohoo (third-person singular simple present boohoos, present participle boohooing, simple past and past participle boohooed)

1. (colloquial, childish, intransitive) To cry, weep.
   • 2011 July 8, Grace Dent, The Guardian:

     "It feels inevitable," he boohooed. Of course it was inevitable – he used to tweet at least six times an hour, endless say-what-you-see drivel.

2. (sarcastic, intransitive) To complain, whine.

間投詞

boohoo!

1. (colloquial) used to represent the noise of someone crying.

使用する際の注意点

• Boohoo, as an interjection, is mostly used to mock someone, similarly to "womp womp", but in some cases, it is just used to, as aforementioned, represent the noise of someone crying.

別の表記

• boo-hoo

語源 2

名詞

boohoo (plural boohoos)

1. (dated) The sailfish.

参照

• “boohoo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

発音

間投詞

boo hoo

1. The sound of crying.

   "Boo hoo!" cried Lincoln after he hit his funny bone.

2. (used ironically, spoken as an ordinary word) it is not worth crying about, an expression of contempt

   So you broke it. Boo hoo! Get a grip and clean up the mess.

語源

Onomatopoeia evoking cries.

発音

• IPA: /ˌbuːˈhuː/

間投詞

boo-hoo

1. The sound of crying.

   "Boo-hoo!" cried Lincoln after he hit his funny bone.

2. (used ironically, spoken as an ordinary word) It is not worth crying about; an expression of contempt.

   So you broke it. Boo-hoo! Get a grip and clean up the mess.

使用する際の注意点

• Boo-hoo, as an interjection, is mostly used to mock someone, similarly to womp womp, but in some cases, it is just used to, as aforementioned, represent the noise of someone crying.

動詞

boo-hoo (third-person singular simple present boo-hoos, present participle boo-hooing, simple past and past participle boo-hooed)

1. (colloquial, childish, intransitive) To cry, weep.
   • 1892, Two Hundred Popular Recitations and Readings‎:

     Two baby carriages, two par uv shoes, two soots uv klothes, two everything, too much! too much! too much! And he fairly boo-hooed.

2. (sarcastic, intransitive) To complain, whine.
   • 1891, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volumes 53-54‎:

     Excited leaders of the people denounced it in unmeasured epithet, and the crowd boo-hooed outside its offices in Collins Street, but the writers of the journal went their unmoved way, as British journalists have a knack of doing.