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# shoo

«shoo» in Mova's school dictionary: **interjection A word said to make animals or people go away** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

interjection (shoo!); verb (shoo, shoos, shooed, shooing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) interjection A word said to make animals or people go away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoo/#m1)

2) verb To make someone or something leave by waving your arms and saying «shoo». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoo/#m2)

3) (informal) shoo-in Someone sure to win. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoo/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Everyday: shooing a cat from the kitchen, shooing birds off the picnic. In stories, a cross gran shoos children outside. Phrases: «shoo away», «shoo off», «a shoo-in».

### examples

- "Shoo!" shouted Gran at the pigeons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoo/#x1)
- Mum shooed the dog off the sofa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoo/#x2)
- We shooed the wasps away from our lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoo/#x3)
- The teacher shooed us outside into the sunshine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoo/#x4)
- She's a shoo-in for the captain's job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoo/#x5)
- Shoo, cat, get out of the kitchen! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoo/#x6)
- They fed the man, and during his feeding Fionn had been shooed from the door as if he were a chicken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoo/#x7)

### note

Sounds like «shoe» — homophone trap: «shoe» is what you wear. Past «shooed». Informal.

### Trees and pragmatics

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