| 单词 | shoohoo |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshoohoo An exclamation used to frighten or drive away poultry, birds, or other intruders. Also shoohoo. Also as n. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [interjection] > shoo, etc. shoo1483 huff1486 st1552 hoosh1874 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [interjection] > to birds or animals shoo1483 huff1486 1483 Cath. Angl. 338/1 Schowe ssou, jnterieccio est. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Scioiare, to cry shooe shooe, as women do to their hens. a1626 J. Fletcher & W. Rowley Maid in Mill v. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Cccc2/1 Shough, shough, up to your coop, Peay Hen. 1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 145 He cannot say shooh to a goose. 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses xv. 139 An eagle..seis'd a great white tame goose grazing near: The standers-by shouted and cri'd, Shue! shue! But yet away the eagle bore him clear. 1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune iv. i. 53 Shoogh, shoogh, get you into a corner when I bid you, shoogh, shoogh, shoogh, what there already? 1822 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Wasps in tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 191 Shuh! shuh! foolish bird, must I stone 'ee? 1829 J. Hunter Hallamshire Gloss. Shoo, the interjection used in frighting away birds from their prey. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxxix. 394 Shoohoo! Get out, you goblin! 1891 J. L. Kipling Beast & Man in India ii. 44 The servant shows the master a fowl standing on one leg. The master crows sho! and the fowl runs away with two. 1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders xxxvii. 311 An owl flew by..and I heard him say, ‘Shoo, you beast!’ 1896 J. Barlow Mrs. Martin's Company 41 A..burly man, who says ‘shoo-shoo’ to a..cluster of tiny yellow ducks. < as lemmas |
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