Boo
WordNet
noun
(1) A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
verb
(2) Show displeasure, as after a performance or speech
WiktionaryText
Interjection
- 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.
- 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.
- A word used by someone who is inherently scary, such as a ghost or a vampire, to make a weaker person who is scared stiff flee. Usually used quietly, as with definition 2.
- An exclamation used by a member of an audience, as at a stage play or sports game, to indicate derision or disapproval of what has just occurred.
Noun
- A derisive shout (as interjection definition 4 above).
- A close acquaintance or significant other.
Verb
- 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
- To derisively shout extended boos at.
- The protesters loudly booed the visiting senator.
Verb
- I cry aloud, bellow, roar; bray.
- c. 123-180 AD — Lucius Apuleius Platonicus, Metamorphoses, 7.3
- sed in prima remansi voce et identidem boavi
- but I stayed stuck on the first syllable and brayed it repeatedly
- sed in prima remansi voce et identidem boavi
- c. 123-180 AD — Lucius Apuleius Platonicus, Metamorphoses, 7.3
- I call loudly upon; bellow, cry or roar forth.