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Meanings of shoo off in English

Portuguese
tanger
Spanish
echar a gritos

Drive away by crying `shoo!'

tanger
Usage of shoo off in English
1
Not in this way does a blatant or bluffing watchdog seek to shoo off trespassers.
Further Adventures of Lad
2
Old Master and old Mistress come in the big hall to eat in the summer, and I stand behind them and shoo off the flies.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
3
He shooed off the others & said she was his.
The new yorker
4
Helena saw to the doctor, shooed off the sightseers, and reassured Ollia and Larius.
Shadows in Bronze
5
He expects to be shooed off the grounds before dawn.
The Guardian
6
At which point she was shooed off the stage.
The Democracy Project
7
If any of them had anything against being shooed off like little children, nobody said a word.
The ice princess
8
The onlookers had been shooed off.
Stash
9
The dog is shooed off.
The thing
10
But always Godfrey Radmore stood before the door of her heart, imperiously, almost contemptuously, " shooing off" any would-be intruder.
What Timmy Did
11
The last of the zoo visitors were meandering away from it, shooed off by blue-and-yellow zoo staff like so many straggling geese.
Pack animals
12
"And your money will be returned." He waved his arms, as if shooing off a wild animal.
Earth Afire
13
I shooed off the police and went in to try to console Jan, as I thought I should, and then take him out of there.
The ice princess
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Translations for shoo off
Portuguese
tanger