Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- The earlier word for both.
- An exclamation used to inspire surprise or fright; especially, a cry uttered by children to frighten their fellows. Also boo.
Wiktionary
- interj. An exclamation used to startle or frighten.
- n. US, slang Fellow, chap, boy.
- n. martial arts A quarterstaff, especially in an oriental context.
GNU Webster's 1913
- interj. An exclamation used to startle or frighten.
Etymologies
- Imitative. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“MARCO BOZZARIS, _mahr´ ko bo tsa´ rees_, popularly _bo zar´ is_”
“July 26th, 2009 11: 51 am ET bo is a complete and total failure at international policy.”
Clinton: Obama has proven his toughness, international savvy
“You trying to cover these non-issue stories to cover for bo is like me trying to cover an huge oil spill with a single rag.”
“Trash talk torpedoes Cranford's online bulletin bo ...”
“If all persuasion failed, and the child were then left to himself without any direction of his attention, then not infrequently new imitations of sounds would be given correctly -- e. g., when I said "bo" -- but these, again, would no longer succeed when called for.”
“Opposite to this was a 'bo'-tree; * (very similar to the banian-tree) this grew to an extraordinary size; the wide spreading branches covered about half an acre of ground, and the trunk measured upwards of forty feet in circumference.”
“The so-called bo-tax is estimated to raise $5 billion over a decade.”
“BEHAR: One of the little surprises inside the new senate health care bill is something they ` re called the bo-tax, a proposal to put a 5 percent tax on elective cosmetic procedures Here to discuss this is are actress, designer, and the fabulous Linda Dano, Dr. Frederick Lukash, plastic surgeon specializing in adolescent, and Diane Archer, Director of the Health Care Project At Institute for America ` s Future.”
“The so-called bo-tax (ph) is estimated to raise $5 billion over a decade.”
“In most cases, the revenue from the so-called bo-taxes is intended to pay for health care for poor children.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bo’.
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•Open List: Songboys
Inspired by gangerh's extremely addictive list songbirds, this is the same type list, but for male names. Same rules apply:
Names of boys in song titles. Not in the lyrics, just in the title...jack, jesse, jakey, john, arthur, nick, donald, bill, billy, gideon, riley, charlie and 95 more...
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Scrabble Names
Given names that were acceptable for play the last time I checked the OWL.
kris, ray, barb, morris, kat, mark, maria, erica, marge, mason, hunter, hazel and 168 more...
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Rare Tongues
Lesser-known languages with really cool names.
aruá, borôro, hixkaryána, macushi, ninam, bit, bo, tenharim, xetá, qawasqar, chru, côông and 51 more...
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Theophilus North
Words from the novel by Thornton Wilder.
Theophilus, bicycle, Newport, cully, Persis, Hard-hearted Hannah, lazaret, jalopy, Gulliver, tennis, typewrite, breathings and 290 more...
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Acceptable two-letter Scrabble words
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 89 more...
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Ironweed
Words gathered while reading Ironweed by William Kennedy.
asteraceae, brogan, gravid, gandy, advent, slithy, dipso, flinty, suspire, henna, heller, nutsy and 90 more...
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I Live a (SOWPODS) Hardscrabble Life
aa, ad, ae, ah, ai, am, an, ar, as, at, aw, ax and 168 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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2 Letter Scrabble Words
All playable 2 letter Scrabble words from OSPD4
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 87 more...
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OSPD4 two-letter words
za, ye, ya, xu, xi, wo, we, ut, us, up, un, um and 88 more...
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SicBo's Words
sic, bo, tai, sai, chuck-a-luck, chance, sicbo, chinese, macau
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Favourite Favourites
My favourite words ever.
fastidiously, grimmoire, idioms, salubrious, diptych, boo, bo, autonomous, technicolor
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bo.

madmouth a language of Laos Jun 15, 2009
vanishedone For usage as a verb (now obs.) see comment on boingboingboing. Jan 13, 2009
skipvia Bo Diddley by, ummm, Bo Diddley Feb 9, 2008