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Is boo a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word boo is a Scrabble US word. The word boo is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word boo is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

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3-letter words (2 found)

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Definitions and meaning of boo

boo

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buː/
  • Rhymes: -uː

Etymology 1

From earlier (15c.) boh, coined to create a loud and startling sound. Compare Middle English bus! (“bang!”, interjection), Latin boō (“cry aloud, roar, shout”, verb), Ancient Greek βοάω (boáō, “shout”, verb).

Interjection

boo

  1. A loud exclamation intended to scare someone. Usually used when one has been hidden from the target, and then appears unexpectedly.
  2. An exclamation used by a member of an audience, as at a stage play or sporting event, to indicate derision or disapproval.
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Translations

Noun

boo (plural boos)

  1. A derisive shout made to indicate disapproval.
Antonyms
  • cheer
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Verb

boo (third-person singular simple present boos, present participle booing, simple past and past participle booed)

  1. (intransitive) To shout extended boos derisively.
  2. (transitive) To shout extended boos at, as a form of disapproval or derision.
Antonyms
  • cheer
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Etymology 2

From beau, from French beau. First appears c. 1988 in the Washington Post: See the cite below.

Noun

boo (plural boos)

  1. (US, Canada, African-American Vernacular, slang) A close acquaintance or significant other.

Etymology 3

Of unknown origin, possibly from boojum, from a fancied resemblance of the plants. First appears c. 1959 in Esquire Magazine.

Noun

boo (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Cannabis.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana

Etymology 4

Likely onomatopoeic.

Verb

boo (third-person singular simple present boos, present participle booing, simple past and past participle booed)

  1. (now rare, Northern England, intransitive) To make a sound characteristic of cattle; to moo.

Etymology 5

Dubious; perhaps adaptation of French beau (“beautiful”).

Noun

boo (plural boos)

  1. A tail feather from an ostrich.

References

Further reading

  • “boo”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

See also

  • boo-boo
  • boo how doy (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

  • OBO, OOB, OoB, o/b/o, obo

Dumbea

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ᵐbøo/

Noun

boo

  1. moon

References

  • Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDuᵐbea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
  • Shintani, T.L.A. & Païta, Y. (1990) Dictionnaire de la langue de Païta, Nouméa: Sociéte d'etudes historiques de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Cited in: "Drubea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

French

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

boo m (uncountable)

  1. (linguistics) Boo
    Synonym: boko

Latin

Alternative forms

  • bovō

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βοάω (boáō).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbo.oː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbɔː.o]

Verb

boō (present infinitive boāre, perfect active boāvī, supine boātum); first conjugation

  1. (intransitive) to cry aloud, bellow, roar; bray
  2. (transitive) to call loudly upon; bellow, cry or roar forth

Conjugation

Synonyms

  • (bellow, roar): īnfremō, mūgiō, rudō

Derived terms

  • boātiō
  • boātus
  • reboō

References

  • “boo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “boo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βοάω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 224

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English buwen, buȝen, bowen, from Old English būgan, from Proto-West Germanic *beugan, from Proto-Germanic *beuganą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūgʰ- (“to bend”). Cognate with English bow, Dutch buigen, German biegen, Danish bue.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buː/

Verb

boo (third-person singular simple present booes, present participle booin, simple past boo'd, past participle boo'd)

  1. to bow, to stoop
  2. to bend, to curve
  3. to make something bend or curve

Noun

boo (plural boos)

  1. a bow (of greeting)

Tagalog

Adjective

boô (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜂ)

  1. obsolete spelling of buo

Noun

boô (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜂ)

  1. obsolete spelling of buo

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