boo-hooとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

間投詞

boo hoo

1. The sound of crying.

   "Boo hoo!" cried Lincoln after he hit his funny bone.

2. (used ironically, spoken as an ordinary word) it is not worth crying about, an expression of contempt

   So you broke it. Boo hoo! Get a grip and clean up the mess.

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動詞

boohoo (third-person singular simple present boohoos, present participle boohooing, simple past and past participle boohooed)

1. (colloquial, childish, intransitive) To cry, weep.
   • 2011 July 8, Grace Dent, The Guardian:

     "It feels inevitable," he boohooed. Of course it was inevitable – he used to tweet at least six times an hour, endless say-what-you-see drivel.

2. (sarcastic, intransitive) To complain, whine.

間投詞

boohoo!

1. (colloquial) used to represent the noise of someone crying.

使用する際の注意点

• Boohoo, as an interjection, is mostly used to mock someone, similarly to "womp womp", but in some cases, it is just used to, as aforementioned, represent the noise of someone crying.

別の表記

• boo-hoo

語源 2

名詞

boohoo (plural boohoos)

1. (dated) The sailfish.

参照

• “boohoo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.