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語源 1

From 中期英語 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”).

動詞

shoo (third-person singular simple present shoos, present participle shooing, simple past and past participle shooed)

1. (transitive, informal) To induce someone or something to leave.

   Don't just shoo away mosquitoes, kill them!

   See if you can shoo off the insurance salesmen.

   • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 15:

     It was those damned bandages over my eyes, the medley of voices that had shouted back at me down the corridor. But I certainly was getting the willies - and once you get 'em, they grow. Already they were past the stage where you can shoo them off by whistling or singing at yourself.

2. (intransitive, informal) To leave under inducement.

   You kids had better shoo before your parents get a call.

3. (informal, rare) To usher someone.

   Shoo the visitor in.

派生語

• shoo away
• shoofly pie
• shoo-fly plant
• shoo-in
• shoo off

間投詞

shoo!

1. (informal, demeaning) Go away! Clear off!

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:go away

   Shoo, fly, don't bother me!

語源 2

From 中期英語 scho, sheo, scheo, sȝheo, from 古期英語 hēo (“she”). More at she.

代名詞

shoo

1. (Yorkshire) Alternative form of she.
   • 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter II, in Wuthering Heights‎, New York: Harper Brothers, published 1855, →OCLC, page 15:

     Hearken, hearken, shoo’s cursing on em!” muttered Joseph, towards whom I had been steering.

参考

• honk-shoo

アナグラム

• Hoos, SOHO, soho, SoHo, Soho, oh-so, oh so, oohs

Sussex

shoo

1. (Sussex) alternative form of sche (“she”)

語源 2

名詞

shoo

1. alternative form of scho (“shoe”)

語源 3

動詞

shoo

1. alternative form of schon (“to shoe”)