LekhoriLekhoriA loud exclamation intended to scare someone. Usually used when one has been hidden from the target, and then appears unexpectedly.
An exclamation used by a member of an audience, as at a stage play or sporting event, to indicate derision or disapproval.
I ask them to record their votes in my favour, and I ask, is there any man who will dare to call me a stranger (hear, hear, and booing)?
A derisive shout made to indicate disapproval.
...Hodgson headed down the tunnel with the boos of fans ringing in his ears after an eighth league defeat of the season...
A close acquaintance or significant other.
A tall, hooded young woman, clutching a newspaper article, delivered a note to the judge. “My name is Sunkist,” she wrote, “Lionel R. Harris is my boyfriend. Lewis shot my Boo and it was not self-defense . . . . Judge and jurors please listen to me I am 17 years of {age} and a good young lady and my Boo got killed for nothing.”
A community in Nacka, Stockholm, central Sweden.
The Boko language.
From earlier (15c.) boh, coined to create a loud and startling sound. Compare Middle English bus! (“bang!”, interjection), Latin boō (“cry aloud, roar, shout”, verb), Ancient Greek βοάω (boáō, “shout”...
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A tail feather from an ostrich.
Burglary.—On Monday night or early on Tuesday morning, some thieves effected an entrance into the premises of Mr. W. J. Laybourne, ostrich feather manufacturer, 60, St. John-street, West Smithfield, and carried off 1,000 prime white feathers, 500 long single black, 800 double ditto, 3,000 mixed colours, 500 spadones, 300 white plumes, 300 coloured boos, and 400 long white light feminas, which, with other property, were valued at about £4,000.
To make a sound characteristic of cattle; to moo.
The cow's tether is put about the neck of the individual who has lost the cow, and he must go about booing like a cow till atonement is made.