boo-hooern.
/ˌbuːˈhuːə/, U.S. /ˈˌbuˈhuər/, Australian English /ˌbuːˈhuːə/, New Zealand English /ˌbuːˈhuːə/ 1. Australian and New Zealand. A person who expresses disdain or dissatisfaction by hooting, shouting, or jeering. Now rare.
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1866 Ballarat (Victoria) Star 26 Nov. 2/7 Can absurdity go further than this? Perhaps only in Mr Michie's apology for the Collingwood howlers and boo-hooers.
1887 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 21 July So angry was he at the uproar that he turned round and said to one of the ‘boo-hooers’—‘Are you an Englishman? Won't you give the man fair play?’
1949 Sun (Sydney) 7 Dec. 22/1 One crowd of energetic boo-hooers..kept up a hail of abuse.
2. A person who weeps or sobs noisily. Also in weakened use: a person who laments or complains about something, esp. in a manner viewed as unjustified or overly dramatic.In quot. 1879 punning on Boer n. 1.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun] > weeper > noisy or profuse
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1879 Funny Folks 15 Mar. 83/4 Our correspondent wishes to know whether this propensity to cry is the reason they are known as ‘Dutch boo-hooers’.
1932 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gaz. 10 Sept. 4/4 I was no mean cryer—nothing fancy, no handwringing or moaning. Just a plain kitchen-step boo-hooer.
1978 B. Hunter Baja Feeling x. 303 I..led my sobbing wife from the stage. She was the only boo-hooer.
1999 Chron. Higher Educ. (Electronic ed.) 24 Sept. a24 Colicky babies, morose lovers, sniffling filmgoers, and other accomplished boo-hooers.
2014 @always_stacey 29 Apr. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I decided to say ‘To Hell’ with the boo-hooers and am following my dreams.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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