Meaning

2 senses

  1. The sound of crying.

    "Boo-hoo!" cried Lincoln after he hit his funny bone.

    buhuu

    хнык-хныкxnyk-xnyk

  2. (colloquial)It is not worth crying about; an expression of contempt.

    So you broke it. Boo-hoo! Get a grip and clean up the mess.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
sound of crying:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
sound of crying:

Origin

Onomatopoeia evoking cries.

Onomatopoeia evoking cries.

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Forms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bonyB2boo

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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