shoo
Go away! Clear off!Go away! Clear off!
Recorded UK: Speaker: Vealhurl Recorder: Vealhurl, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
» The old lady shooed us away.
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23 sentencesMeaning
1 senses(informal)Go away! Clear off!
Shoo, fly, don't bother me!
husch, kusch
кыш!kyš!, брысь!brysʹ!, кшш!kšš!
киш!kyš!
Origin
From Middle English schew, schowe, show, showe, scou (“shoo!”, interjection). Compare MiddFrom Middle English schew, schowe, show, showe, scou (“shoo!”, interjection). Compare Middle High German schū, schuo (“shoo!”, interjection) (modern German scheu! (“shoo!”)), Dutch schuwen (“to shun”), German scheuchen (“to scare, drive away”).
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