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Meanings of shoo in English

Portuguese
tanger
Spanish
echar a gritos

Drive away by crying `shoo!'

tanger
Synonyms
Examples for "shoo off"
Examples for "shoo off"
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
1
And we would use brushes to shoo away the flies.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
2
Fifty of those gardeners were mere boys whose sole job it was to shoo away unwanted birds.
Warlord: an alex hawke novel
3
We all nod, eager to shoo away the tiny doubt that circles us like a persistent fly.
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
4
Overhead was suspended a fringed movable canopy that served both to cool us and to shoo away insects.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
5
Will you shoo away your pet?
Childhood's End
Usage of shoo in English
1
Labour could well be a shoo-in according to its latest internal polling.
Radio NZ
2
But it was nice in you fellers to shoo him that way.
Fred Fenton on the Track; Or, The Athletes of Riverport School
3
A nurse came soon to shoo Khelséa away, bringing lukewarm beef broth.
The bone palace
4
And I have to shoo the candy boy away every half hour.
Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's
5
She'd just have to feed him pizza and then shoo him out.
Marrying the playboy doctor
6
If we start planning now, you'll be a shoo-in for seventh grade.
Unfinished desires: a novel
7
And I think I know the one man that can shoo him.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
8
You'd be a shoo-in with something like that.' Greta laughed and laughed.
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
9
Then, with the broom I will shoo him off that curtain pole.
Fred Fenton on the Crew; Or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport Scho...
10
They probably want me to shoo a chicken out of their way.
Prudence of the Parsonage
11
It should have been a shoo-in for Republican candidate Alice Forgy Kerr.
The Irish Times
12
By midnight she was trying to shoo everyone out of the pub.
Ryan's place
13
I'll go out with a flashlight and broom and shoo it away.
Summer of Night
14
If this was an election for sainthood, Pierre would be a shoo-in.
Terminal Compromise
15
I'll only shoo this fellow off the place, gently, mind you, gently.
Desert Gold
16
He looked like he was trying to shoo a particularly ferocious dog.
Sympathy for the devil
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Translations for shoo
Portuguese
tanger
Shoo through the time
Shoo across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common