单词 | booing |
释义 | booingn. 1. Usually with reference to an audience or other large group of people: the action or fact of jeering, hooting, or shouting in order to express disdain for or dissatisfaction with a person or thing; an instance of this; (also) the sound resulting from this action. Cf. boo int. 2, boo v. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > [noun] > expression of disapproval > by sounds or exclamations hootinga1225 hissingc1384 fie?1550 acclamation1602 hiss1602 hoot1612 catcall1749 catcallingc1781 scraping1785 sibilation1822 the big bird1825 boo hoo1825 booing1830 Kentish fire1834 boo-hooing1865 boo1884 slow handclap1904 tutting1929 slow handclapping1932 slow clap1937 1830 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 14 July So far they had gone on peaceably, and no obstruction beyond yells of disapprobation, hooting, booing, &c. had been attempted by the mob. 1884 Rep. Ld. Salisbury's Speech in Times 23 July 10/1 ‘We have been informed by Mr. Gladstone’ (Great booing and cheering). 1893 Daily News 27 Jan. 5/1 It was not a booing that booed the piece to immediate perdition. 1968 Lawrence (Kansas) Daily Jrnl.-World 22 Apr. 13/7 Loud booing was heard from the stands. 2004 R. Fleming Inner Voice 103 There was virtually no booing after opening night, and the critics..were sympathetic. 2. The bellowing of a cow or similar animal; a noise of this sort. Cf. boo v. 1, boo n.1 1, boing n.1 rare.Attested earliest in figurative use with reference to a person's manner of speaking. ΚΠ 1851 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 109/2 His ‘booing’ was as often bestowed upon repetition of favourite passages as upon original composition. 1882 R. Jefferies Bevis II. 77 The booing of distant cows. 1947 W. H. Auden in Amer. Scholar Autumn 404 Do they sponsor In us the mornes and motted mammelons,..where each frescade rings With melodious booing and hooing? 2016 CNN.com (Nexis) 7 June You are surrounded by fields speckled with buffaloes chilling in the ponds. I could hear their mooing and booing in the background. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). booingadj. That boos; that jeers, that cries ‘boo’ (cf. boo v.); (also) designating a noise of this sort. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > [adjective] > by making a sound catcallingc1781 booing1805 tutting1929 1805 Monthly Mirror June 391 Of the same booing tribe he may not be the last. 1872 C. Darwin Expression Emotions Man & Animals ix. 232 A booing or whooing noise. 1892 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 22 Dec. 2/2 A hooting and booing crowd opposite the parochial house, where the bishop lives. 1930 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 11 Jan. ‘I didn't want to fight Al..anyway,’ said Shires, addressing the booing crowd after the referee had lifted his arms as a token of victory. 1964 Daily Mail 22 Feb. 2/2 The crowd swept forward with an ugly booing sound. 2004 J. McCourt Queer Street xx. 355 She was made to face booing claqueurs from the start, and she routed them all like a real warrior. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1830adj.1805 |
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