different between boo vs bao

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Etymology 1

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

Interjection

boo

1. A loud exclamation intended to scare someone, especially a child. Usually used when one has been hidden from the victim and then suddenly appeared unexpectedly.
2. Used ironically in a situation where one had the opportunity to scare someone by speaking suddenly.
3. An exclamation used by a member or many members of an audience, as at a stage play or sports game, to indicate derision or disapproval of what has just occurred.

Derived terms

• peekaboo

Translations

Noun

boo (plural boos)

1. A derisive shout made to indicate disapproval.

Translations

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To shout extended boos derisively.

   When he took the podium, the crowd booed.

   • 2004, The New Yorker, 18 Oct 2004

     Nobody booed and nobody clapped
2. (transitive) To shout extended boos at, as a form of derision.

   The protesters loudly booed the visiting senator.

Antonyms

• cheer

Translations

Etymology 2

From beau.

Noun

boo (plural boos)

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

Etymology 3

Noun

boo (uncountable)

1. (slang) Cannabis.
   • 1967, George E. Andrews, Simon Vinkenoog, The Book of Grass: An Anthology on Indian Hemp (page 213)

     […] sexually promiscuous girl who smoked boo all day and socialized with junkies when she wasn't busy banging away in bed […]

   • 1984, Raphael S. Ezekiel, Voices from the corner: poverty and racism in the inner city (page 56)

     Like I have smoked boo, drunk whiskey, and shot dope, and I was going through all three bags at once.

   • 2019, Ron Cook, On Guard in the General's Chorus (page 2)

     Grandpa doesn't want Grandma and their kids and grandkids to know that he had to get penicillin shots all the time, or that he smoked boo (marijuana) on a daily basis, or that he dealt in the black market, or that he had yobos (purchased live-in sex slaves).

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) To make a sound characteristic of cattle; to moo.

Further reading

• boo at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• OBO, OOB, OoB, o/b/o, obo

Dumbea

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bøo/

Noun

boo

1. moon

References

• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "?Du?bea" 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

Synonyms

• boko

Latin

Alternative forms

• bov?

Etymology

From b?s +? -?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bo.o?/, [?bo?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bo.o/, [?b???]

Verb

bo? (present infinitive bo?re, perfect active bo?v?, supine bo?tum); first conjugation

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

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (bellow, roar): ?nfrem?, m?gi?, rud?

Derived terms

• bo?ti?
• bo?tus
• rebo?

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

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English buwen, bu?en, bowen, from Old English b?gan, from Proto-West Germanic *beugan, from Proto-Germanic *beugan?, from Proto-Indo-European *b??g?- (“to bend”). Cognate with English bow, Dutch buigen, German biegen, Danish bue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?/

Verb

boo (third-person singular present booes, present participle booin, 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)

English

Alternative forms

• bau

Etymology 1

From Mandarin ? (b?o) and Cantonese ? (baau1)

Noun

bao (countable and uncountable, plural baos)

1. Any of various types of steamed bread or bun used in Chinese cuisine

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:dim sum

Translations

See also

• Baozi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Swahili bao.

Noun

bao (uncountable)

1. A mancala board game played in East Africa.

See also

• Bao (mancala game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• A/B/O, ABO, AOB, Abo, OAB, OBA, Oba., a.o.b., abo, boa, oba

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /?ba?o?/
• Rhymes: -o?
• Hyphenation: ba?o

Noun

bao

1. a tortoise
2. a turtle

Hiligaynon

Noun

baó

1. tortoise, turtle

Ilocano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ba?ó
• IPA^(key): /ba??u/, [b???o]

Noun

baó

1. mouse

Derived terms

• baoen

Mandarin

Romanization

bao

1. Nonstandard spelling of b?o.
2. Nonstandard spelling of báo.
3. Nonstandard spelling of b?o.
4. Nonstandard spelling of bào.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Mansaka

Noun

bao

1. turtle

Noun

baò

1. smell

Maranao

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahu, *bahuq.

Noun

bao

1. smell
2. scent
3. odour

Marshallese

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [p????], (enunciated) [p?? w?]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /p?æ?w?w/
• Bender phonemes: {bahwew}

Noun

bao

1. bird
2. chicken
3. fowl

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bao/, [?ba.o]

Noun

bao m (plural baos)

1. bao (Chinese bread)

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

bao (ma class, plural mabao)

1. board (piece of wood)
2. goal

   Synonym: goli

3. board game
4. a traditional Swahili mancala board game played in most of East Africa

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ba?o
• IPA^(key): /?bao/

Etymology 1

Noun

bao

1. coconut shell stripped of its husk and meat

Etymology 2

See main entry.

Noun

bao

1. Obsolete form of balo (“widow; widower”).

Venetian

Noun

bao m (plural bai)

1. worm
2. bug

Derived terms

• baéto

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [??a?w??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [??a?w??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [??a?w??]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from ?.

Noun

(classifier cái, chi?c) bao

1. bag; sack; pack
2. box; packet

Derived terms

See also

• b?; túi

Verb

bao

1. to enclose; to envelope; to cover
2. to guarantee; to assure
3. to take on everything; to undertake (the whole of) something as someone's proxy
4. to treat; to pay (for someone else); to foot the bill; to cover (someone else); to stand

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Determiner

bao

1. (literary) so many

See also

• bao gi?
• bao nhiêu

Waray-Waray

Noun

baó

1. turtle; tortoise