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" (111 found)
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Closest matches (23)
Strong matches (33)
Related words (55)
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7 entriesAntonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesdbpedia influenced_by
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7 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
4 entriesis a
2 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
2 entriesTranslations
132 translations across 31 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἰεῦ intj (exclamation used by a member of an audience)
Catalan
4 entries- bu intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- ua intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- esbroncada noun (derisive shout)
- esbroncar verb (to shout boos derisively (intransitive))
Chinese Cantonese
4 entries- 噓 /嘘 intj (exclamation used by a member of an audience)
- 柴臺 /柴台 intj (exclamation used by a member of an audience)
- 㗾 noun (derisive shout)
- 㗾 verb (to shout boos derisively (intransitive))
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 吁 intj (exclamation used by a member of an audience)
- 哇 intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- 喝倒彩 intj (exclamation used by a member of an audience)
- 喲 /哟 intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
Czech
1 entries- baf intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
Dutch
3 entries- boe intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- boe intj (exclamation used by a member of an audience)
- boegeroep noun (derisive shout)
Esperanto
2 entries- hu intj (exclamation used by a member of an audience)
- hui verb (to shout boos derisively (intransitive))
Finnish
4 entries- buu intj (exclamation used by a member of an audience)
- huu intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- huu intj (word used ironically in a situation where one might have scared someone, but said someone was not scared)
- pöö intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
French
4 entries- bouh intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- bouh intj (exclamation used by a member of an audience)
- hou intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- huer verb (to shout boos derisively (intransitive))
Galician
3 entries- bu intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- apupar verb (to shout boos derisively (intransitive))
- apupar verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
German
4 entries- buh intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- buh intj (word used ironically in a situation where one might have scared someone, but said someone was not scared)
- buh intj (exclamation used by a member of an audience)
- Buhruf noun (derisive shout)
Greek
3 entries- μπου intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- ου intj (exclamation used by a member of an audience)
- μπου verb (to shout boos derisively (intransitive))
Hebrew
2 entries- בּוּז intj (exclamation used by a member of an audience)
- בָּז verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
Hungarian
4 entries- hu intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- hu intj (word used ironically in a situation where one might have scared someone, but said someone was not scared)
- pfuj intj (exclamation used by a member of an audience)
- kifütyülés noun (derisive shout)
Icelandic
4 entries- bö intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- bö intj (word used ironically in a situation where one might have scared someone, but said someone was not scared)
- bú intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- bú intj (word used ironically in a situation where one might have scared someone, but said someone was not scared)
Irish
3 entries- faíreach noun (derisive shout)
- bí ag faíreach verb (to shout boos derisively (intransitive))
- bí ag faíreach faoi verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
Japanese
4 entries- ばあ intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- ブー intj (exclamation used by a member of an audience)
- ブー noun (derisive shout)
- ブーイング noun (derisive shout)
Korean
1 entries- 부 intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
Macedonian
4 entries- бу intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- уа intj (exclamation used by a member of an audience)
- исвиркување noun (derisive shout)
- исвиркува verb (to shout boos derisively (intransitive))
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- bue verb (to shout boos derisively (intransitive))
- bue på verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
- bue ut verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- bu intj (exclamation used by a member of an audience)
Polish
3 entries- bu intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- wygwizdać verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
- wygwizdywać verb (to shout boos at (transitive))
Portuguese
4 entries- bu intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- bu intj (word used ironically in a situation where one might have scared someone, but said someone was not scared)
- bu intj (exclamation used by a member of an audience)
- apupo noun (derisive shout)
Romanian
3 entries- bau intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- bau intj (word used ironically in a situation where one might have scared someone, but said someone was not scared)
- huo intj (exclamation used by a member of an audience)
Russian
4 entries- бу intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- фу intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- шш intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- осви́стывание noun (derisive shout)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- bo intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
Spanish
4 entries- bu intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- uuh intj (word used ironically in a situation where one might have scared someone, but said someone was not scared)
- abucheo noun (derisive shout)
- befa noun (derisive shout)
Swedish
4 entries- bu intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- bu intj (word used ironically in a situation where one might have scared someone, but said someone was not scared)
- bu intj (exclamation used by a member of an audience)
- Boo name (locality in Sweden)
Turkish
2 entries- bö intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- yuh intj (exclamation used by a member of an audience)
Vietnamese
1 entries- hù intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
Welsh
2 entries- bw intj (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
- bw intj (exclamation used by a member of an audience)
Sample sentences
24 total sentences available.
Tom would never say boo to a goose.
Source: tatoeba (8450624)
He criticized the president for telling crowds not to boo him, but to get their “revenge” by voting.
Source: tatoeba (11364458)
Boo! Get off the stage!
Source: tatoeba (13758595)
Showing 4 of 24 available sentences.
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