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# boo

«boo» in Mova's school dictionary: **what you shout to make someone jump or get a fright** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

interjection (boo!); verb (boo, boos, booed, booing); noun (a boo, boos)

### meaning for a pupil

1) «Boo!» is what you shout to make someone jump or get a fright. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boo/#m1)

2) To boo is to shout «boo» to show you don't like a performer, player or speaker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boo/#m2)

3) A boo is a sound of dislike from a crowd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boo/#m3)

4) Boo can be a pet name for someone you love (informal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boo/#m4)

5) Boo-hoo is the sound a person makes when crying loudly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boo/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories children jump out and shout «Boo!» in games, especially at Halloween; ghosts in cartoons say «Boo». At pantomimes in the UK, audiences boo the villain as part of the fun. At sports matches crowds sometimes boo; in social lessons pupils learn that booing someone can be unkind. Phrase: «wouldn't say boo to a goose» means very shy.

### examples

- He jumped out from behind the door and shouted «Boo!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boo/#x1)
- The audience booed the wicked stepmother in the pantomime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boo/#x2)
- Fans booed when the referee gave a penalty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boo/#x3)
- My little brother is so shy he wouldn't say boo to a goose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boo/#x4)
- The ghost in the cartoon said «Boo!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boo/#x5)
- Please don't boo the other team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boo/#x6)
- Bimeby ole Brer Bull-frog, he sorter stop his cryin' en his boo-hooin', en he up'n say: [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boo/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: booed, booing. Plural noun: boos. Opposite of booing: cheering, clapping. «Boo-hoo» is the sound of crying. «Peekaboo» is a baby game.

### In the corpora

- [bú yòng xiè («BOO yong SHYEH») means no need to thank me, a bit warmer than bú kèqi.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/8/)
- [bú shì («BOO SHR!») means no, it isn't; bù becomes rising bú before a falling tone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/8/)
- [bù wánr le («BOO WAR luh») means I'm not playing any more, the usual end of a quarrel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/16/)
- ["A boo-boo" (humorous) means a small mistake.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/34-failure-and-mistakes/6/)
- [Debout ! ("duh-BOO") means "Get up!"; word for word it means standing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/12-telling-the-time/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «boo» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boo/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.