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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

Etymology

From Middle English boa, from Latin boa (“large snake”), a species of serpent mentioned in Pliny's Naturalis Historia (Natural History).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?bo?.?/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

boa (plural boas or boae or (obsolete) boæ)

1. Any of a group of large American snakes, of the genus Boa, subfamily Boinae, or family Boidae, including the boa constrictor and the emperor boa of Mexico.
2. (plural "boas") A type of scarf typically made from feathers.

Translations

See also

• boa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Boa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin boa (“large snake”).

Noun

boa f (plural boes)

1. boa (snake)

Further reading

• “boa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “boa” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “boa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “boa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

From Latin boa (“large snake”).

Noun

boa c (singular definite boaen, plural indefinite boaer)

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (item of clothing)

Declension

Synonyms

• boaslange

Derived terms

• boaslange
• fjerboa
• kongeboa

References

• “boa” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch boa, from Latin boa. The use for scarf derived from French boa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bo?.a?/
• Hyphenation: boa
• Rhymes: -o?a?

Noun

boa m (plural boa's, diminutive boaatje n)

1. boa, snake of the genus Boa
2. fur or plumed scarf, boa

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: boa

Esperanto

Etymology

From bo- +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?boa/
• Hyphenation: bo?a
• Rhymes: -oa

Adjective

boa (accusative singular boan, plural boaj, accusative plural boajn)

1. Related by marriage (rarely used; bo- is usually a prefix).

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bo.?/, [?bo?.?]
• IPA^(key): /?bo??/, [?bo???]
• Rhymes: -o.?
• Syllabification: bo?a

Noun

boa

1. boa (snake)

Declension

Compounds

• boakäärme
• kuningasboa
• smaragdipuuboa

Anagrams

• abo

French

Etymology

From Latin boa (“large snake”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?.a/

Noun

boa m (plural boas)

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (scarf)

Further reading

• “boa” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin boa (“large snake”).

Noun

boa f (plural boas)

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (scarf)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

boa

1. feminine singular of bo

Further reading

• “boa” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch boa, from Middle Dutch boa, from Latin boa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?boa?]
• Hyphenation: boa

Noun

boa (first-person possessive boaku, second-person possessive boamu, third-person possessive boanya)

1. boa, snake of the genus Boa
2. fur or plumed scarf, boa

Further reading

• “boa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin boa

Noun

boa m (invariable)

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (scarf)

Noun

boa f (plural boe)

1. buoy

Katembri

Noun

boa

1. moon

References

• ?estmír Loukotka, ?Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 88-89

Latin

Etymology

First mentioned by Pliny, of unknown origin. Folk etymology connected it to Ancient Greek ???? (boûs, “ox”).

Noun

boa f (genitive boae); first declension

1. A large snake native to Roman Italy.
2. A disease, the measles or smallpox.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Verb

bo?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of bo?

References

• boa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• boa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Lindu

Noun

boa

1. lie; falsehood

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

boa m (definite singular boaen, indefinite plural boaer, definite plural boaene)

1. boa

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

boa m (definite singular boaen, indefinite plural boaer or boaar, definite plural boaene or boaane)

1. boa

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?.a/

Etymology 1

From Latin boa.

Noun

boa m anim (indeclinable)

1. boa (snake)

Etymology 2

From French boa, from Latin boa.

Noun

boa n (indeclinable)

1. feather boa

Further reading

• boa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bo.?/

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese bõa, from Latin bona, feminine of bonus (“good”).

Adjective

boa

1. feminine singular of bom

Derived terms

• boa noite
• boa tarde
• numa boa
• embora (from "em boa hora")
• boa gente / gente boa
• boa vida / vida boa
• de boa
• boas

Noun

boa f (plural boas)

1. an interesting story, joke or news

Interjection

boa!

1. good one!, well done!, all right! (expresses approval, applause or admiration)

Etymology 2

From New Latin Boa, from Latin boa (“large Italian snake species”).

Noun

boa f (plural boas)

1. boa (any snake of the Boa genus)

   Synonym: jiboia

Further reading

• “boa” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French boa

Noun

boa m (uncountable)

1. boa constrictor

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin boa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?boa/, [?bo.a]

Noun

boa f (plural boas)

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (scarf made from feathers)

Further reading

• “boa” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin boa

Noun

boa c

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (scarf)

Declension

Vietnamese

Etymology

From French pourboire (“tip”, literally “fordrink”).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

boa

1. to leave a tip; to give gratuity