Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.
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Boo
/buː/
Synonyms for "boo" (58 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (29)
Related word relations
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More general
12 entriescallcondemncryexpression of disapprovalinterjectionoutcryshoutterm of endearmentverbal actionvociferationyell
More specific
8 entriesCollocations
15 entriesaudience booingaudience boosboo at the proposalboo from the crowdboo loudlyboo the performanceboo the policyboo the speakerbooing crowdboos from the crowdcrowd booslet out a booloud boomy boosudden boo
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
4 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesTranslations
17 translations across 13 languages.
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 㗾 verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
Finnish
1 entries- buuata verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
Galician
1 entries- apupar verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
German
1 entries- ausbuhen verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
Hebrew
1 entries- בָּז verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
Hungarian
2 entries- kifütyül verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
- lehurrog verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
Icelandic
1 entries- púa út verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
Irish
1 entries- bí ag faíreach faoi verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
Macedonian
1 entries- исвиркува verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- bue på verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
- bue ut verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
Polish
2 entries- wygwizdać verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
- wygwizdywać verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
Russian
2 entries- осви́стывать verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
- освиста́ть verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
Swedish
1 entries- bua ut verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
Tom would never say boo to a goose.
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He criticized the president for telling crowds not to boo him, but to get their “revenge” by voting.
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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)?
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