shoo

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++shoo1 /ʃuː/ interjection  LEAVE A PLACEused to tell an animal or a child to go away 嘘〔用以撵走动物或小孩〕shoo2 verb [transitive always + adverb/preposition] informal  LEAVE A PLACEto make an animal or a child go away, especially because they are annoying you 发嘘声把〔动物或小孩〕赶走〔尤因受到他们烦扰时〕shoo somebody away/out etc He shooed the kids out of the kitchen. 他嘘了一声，把孩子们赶出厨房。→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

shoo• Soon there would be the little clutch of spectators, the curious children shooed away by the adults, the Press photographers.• Just this week, the City Council decided to use the police like a big swinging tail to shoo away insects.• I come outside and shoo Grandpa off the mower again.• He prescribed a painkiller and suggested she keep busy, then he shooed her away and chided her for malingering.• She shooed him, and he skipped away, but not without hooting behind his hand.• These were the days when rock was being shooed out in disgrace, a lumpen confusion of scratched armpits and muddled motives.• Johnny knew that was wrong, and with his stick, he tried to shoo the goats out.Origin shoo1 (1400-1500) Natural sound

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shoo

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shoo¹ /ʃuː/ interjectionused to tell an animal or a child to go away

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shoo² verb [transitive always + adverb/preposition] informal
to make an animal or a child go away, especially because they are annoying you
    shoo somebody away/out etc
    He shooed the kids out of the kitchen.