English

Proper noun

Boo

1. A locality situated in Nacka Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden.

Translations

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Boo

1. (linguistics) The Boko language.

Swedish

Proper noun

Boo

1. Boo (the town)

English

Interjection

boo

1. A loud exclamation intended to scare someone, especially a child. Usually used when one has been hidden from the victim and then suddenly appeared unexpectedly.
2. A word used ironically in a situation where one might have scared someone, but said someone was not scared. Not said as loudly as in definition 1.
3. An exclamation used by a member or many members of an audience, as at a stage play or sports game, to indicate derision or disapproval of what has just occurred.

Derived terms

• peekaboo

Translations

Noun

boo ‎(plural boos)

1. A derisive shout made to indicate disapproval.
   • 2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC:

     ...Hodgson headed down the tunnel with the boos of fans ringing in his ears after an eighth league defeat of the season...

Translations

Verb

boo ‎(third-person singular simple present boos, present participle booing, simple past and past participle booed)

1. (intransitive) To shout extended boos derisively.

   When he took the podium, the crowd booed.

   • 2004, The New Yorker, 18 Oct 2004

     Nobody booed and nobody clapped

   • 2016 January 23, Phil Dakwes, “Man Utd 0–1 Southampton”, in (Please provide the title of the work), BBC Sport:

     Substitute Charlie Austin scored seven minutes into his Southampton debut as a lacklustre Manchester United were booed off at Old Trafford.

2. (transitive) To derisively shout extended boos at.

   The protesters loudly booed the visiting senator.

Antonyms

• cheer

Translations

Etymology 2

From beau.

Noun

boo ‎(plural boos)

1. (US, African American Vernacular, slang) A close acquaintance or significant other.

Anagrams

• o/b/o
• OOB

French

Noun

boo m ‎(uncountable)

1. (linguistics) Boo

Synonyms

• boko

Kawaiisu

Noun

boo

1. water

References

• Kroeber, Shoshonean Dialects of California, in University of California Publications: American archaeology and ethnology, volume 4, page 81

Latin

Etymology

From bōs +‎ -ō.

Alternative forms

• bovō

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.oː/

Verb

boō ‎(present infinitive boāre, perfect active boāvī, supine boātum); first conjugation

1. (intransitive) I cry aloud, bellow, roar; bray.

   sed in prima remansi voce et identidem boavi‎

   but I stayed stuck on the first syllable and brayed it repeatedly

   • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 7.3

     Et verbum quidem praecedens semel ac saepius inmodice clamitavi, sequens vero nullo pacto disserere potui, sed in prima remansi voce et identidem boavi "Non non", quanquam minia rutunditate pendulas vibrassem labias.

2. (transitive) I call loudly upon; bellow, cry or roar forth.

Inflection

Synonyms

• (bellow, roar): īnfremō, mūgiō, rudō

Derived terms

• boātiō
• boātus
• reboō

References

• boo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• boo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buː/

Verb

boo ‎(third-person singular present booes, present participle booin, past boo'd, past participle boo'd)

1. To bow, to stoop.
2. To bend, to curve.
3. To make something bend or curve.

Noun

boo ‎(plural boos)

1. (greeting): A bow.