to shoo away
1shoo away — phr verb Shoo away is used with these nouns as the object: ↑fly …
2shoo away — verb drive away by crying shoo! (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑shoo off, ↑shoo • Hypernyms: ↑chase away, ↑drive out, ↑turn back, ↑drive away, ↑di …
3shoo away — {v. phr.} To frighten or chase away. * /When the children gathered around the new sports car, we shooed them away./ …
4shoo away — {v. phr.} To frighten or chase away. * /When the children gathered around the new sports car, we shooed them away./ …
5shoo\ away — v. phr. To frighten or chase away. When the children gathered around the new sports car, we shooed them away …
6shoo off — verb drive away by crying shoo! • Syn: ↑shoo, ↑shoo away • Hypernyms: ↑chase away, ↑drive out, ↑turn back, ↑drive away, ↑dispel, ↑drive off …
7shoo — [sho͞o] interj. [echoic] go away; get out: used as in driving away chickens or other animals vi. shooed, shooing to cry “shoo” vt. to drive away abruptly, by or as by crying “shoo” …
8shoo — (v.) 1620s, to drive away by calling shoo, from the exclamation (late 15c.), instinctive, Cf. Ger. schu, It. scioia. Shoo in easy winner (especially in politics) (1939) was originally a horse that wins a race by pre arrangement (1928; the verb… …
9Shoo — Shoo, interj. [Cf. G. scheuchen to scare, drive away.] Begone; away; an expression used in frightening away animals, especially fowls. [1913 Webster] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …
10shoo — [[t]ʃu͟ː[/t]] shoos, shooing, shooed 1) VERB If you shoo an animal or a person away, you make them go away by waving your hands or arms at them. [V n with adv] You d better shoo him away... [V n prep] I shooed him out of the room. 2) EXCLAM You… …
