different between boo vs boro

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

Verb

boro

1. (Jamaican) borrow

Translations

Noun

boro (plural boros)

1. (US) Alternative spelling of borough

Derived terms

• -boro

Anagrams

• OBOR, boor, broo, robo-

Aneme Wake

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boro/

Noun

boro

1. pig

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo.?o/

Noun

boro inan

1. boron

Declension

Further reading

• “boro” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• “boro” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

Dongxiang

Etymology 1

From Proto-Mongolic *böxere, from Proto-Turkic *bögür.

Compare Mongolian ???? (böör), Turkish böbrek.

Noun

boro

1. kidney

Etymology 2

From Proto-Mongolic *bora, from Proto-Turkic *bo?.

Compare Mongolian ??? (bor), Turkish boz.

Adjective

boro

1. grey
2. dark

Etymology 3

Perhaps the same as the second etymology.

Noun

boro

1. heathen

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?boro/
• Hyphenation: bo?ro
• Rhymes: -oro

Noun

boro (uncountable, accusative boron)

1. boron

French

Pronoun

boro

1. Alternative spelling of bôrô (“enough”)

Galician

Noun

boro m (uncountable)

1. boron

Italian

Etymology

Back-formation from borace (“borax”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?.ro/
• Hyphenation: bò?ro
• Rhymes: -?ro

Noun

boro m (uncountable)

1. (chemistry) boron

Related terms

Anagrams

• orbo

Laboya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bo?ro]

Noun

boro

1. gebang palm

References

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) , “boro”, in Lamboya word list, Leiden: LexiRumah

Muduapa

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *beRek.

Noun

boro

1. pig

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

bòro f

1. definite singular of bòru

Portuguese

Noun

boro m (plural boros)

1. boron

Coordinate terms

• (Chemical Element): Previous: berílio. Next: carbono

Related terms

Rohingya

Adjective

boro

1. large

Spanish

Etymology

From bórax, influenced by similar formations in other European languages (compare English boron, French bore).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

boro m (uncountable)

1. boron

Derived terms

Related terms

• bórax

See also

• boro on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English bore (“to make a hole”).

Verb

boro

1. to bore
2. to cut in line
3. to intrude (on a party) uninvited

Noun

boro

1. drill (instrument)
2. bore
3. hole, leak

Adjective

boro

1. having holes, leaky
2. (of a guest) uninvited

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish boro.

Noun

boro

1. (chemistry) boron

Venetian

Noun

boro m (plural bori)

1. boron