shooed; shooing; shoos
: to scare, drive, or send away by or as if by crying shoo
shooed us away from the kitchen
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Verb
We tried to help her, but she shooed us away.
He shooed the cat out of the house.
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Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
Texas is shooing 31%, and Swain (11 points, 6-6 FTs) is the only Longhorn in double figures.
—Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 11 Mar. 2026
When other monkeys shooed the baby away, Punch rushed back to the toy orangutan, hugging it for comfort.
—ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
Oxygen masks and electronic anti-skid brakes were introduced in the nineteen-sixties, along with bird cannons at airports, to shoo off Canada geese and fellow-fliers.
—Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
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Verb
Upon seeing undead shamblers on the tube, my mother didn’t turn it off or shoo me from the room.
—Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
Texas is shooing 31%, and Swain (11 points, 6-6 FTs) is the only Longhorn in double figures.
—Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 11 Mar. 2026
When other monkeys shooed the baby away, Punch rushed back to the toy orangutan, hugging it for comfort.
—ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
Oxygen masks and electronic anti-skid brakes were introduced in the nineteen-sixties, along with bird cannons at airports, to shoo off Canada geese and fellow-fliers.
—Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for shoo
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“Shoo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoo. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
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