shoo
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ʃuː/
shoo (shoos, present participle shooing; past and past participle shooed)
- (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.
- (intransitive, informal) To leave under inducement.
- You kids had better shoo before your parents get a call.
- (informal, rare) To usher someone.
- Shoo the visitor in.
- French: zou
- German: scheuchen, verscheuchen
- Portuguese: enxotar
- Russian: прогоня́ть
- Spanish: ahuyentar, correr
- French: pschtt, ouste
- German: husch, weg
- Italian: sciò!, pussa via!, vattene!
- Portuguese: xô
- Russian: кыш
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