different between boo vs hoot

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

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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 houten, huten, hoten, of North Germanic origin, from or related to Old Swedish huta (“to cast out in contempt”), related to Middle High German hiuzen, h?zen (“to call to pursuit”), Swedish hut! (“begone!”, interjection), Dutch hui (“ho, hallo”), Danish huj (“ho, hallo”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hu?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Noun

hoot (plural hoots)

1. A derisive cry or shout.
2. The cry of an owl.

3. (US, slang) A fun event or person. (See hootenanny)

4. A small particle.

Usage notes

• (derisive cry) The phrase a hoot and a holler has a very different meaning to hoot and holler. The former is a short distance, the latter is a verb of derisive cry.
• (small particle) The term is nearly always encountered in a negative sense in such phrases as don't care a hoot or don't give two hoots.

Translations

Verb

hoot (third-person singular simple present hoots, present participle hooting, simple past and past participle hooted)

1. To cry out or shout in contempt.
2. To make the cry of an owl, a hoo.

   • The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders / At our quaint spirits.
3. To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.

4. To sound the horn of a vehicle

Translations

See also

• hooter
• hootenanny
• give a hoot

Anagrams

• Htoo, OTOH, otoh, thoo, toho

Finnish

Noun

hoot

1. Nominative plural form of hoo.

Anagrams

• Ohto, ohto, toho

Middle English

Adjective

hoot

1. hot

Descendants

• English: hot

Scots

Alternative forms

• hout, hut, hute, howt, het

Etymology

Imitative. Compare English tut, Scottish Gaelic och.

Interjection

hoot

1. Precedes a disagreeing or contradictory statement.
2. An expression of annoyance or disapproval.

Usage notes

• Frequently used in the set phrases hoot mon or hoots mon.

Derived terms

• hoot awa
• hoot aye
• hoot fie, hoot fye
• hoot mon, hoots mon
• hoot na
• hoot-toot, hoots-toots, hout tout
• hoot-ye

Noun

hoot (plural hoots)

1. A term of contempt.

Verb

hoot (third-person singular present hoots, present participle hootin, past hootit, past participle hootit)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To dismiss idly with contempt or derision; to flout; to pooh-pooh.

Derived terms

• houttie (“irritable”)

References

• “hoot” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.