shoo

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  1. interjection Used to frighten away animals or birds.
  2. transitive verb To drive or frighten away by or as if by crying "shoo.”

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  • “You shoo, and I'll catch,” cried the kind host, but shrank back as the fowl came near, exclaiming: “Say, West, has a hen got teeth?” At last they conquered, plucked, and cooked her for a somewhat tardy meal, with some potatoes clawed up in the potato field. —  Memories and Anecdotes
  • Granted, that surprises basically no one, since Kennedy's last name and family privilege is the only reason she's looking like a shoo-in for a job she's utterly unqualified to hold. —  Gawker
  • Granted, that surprises basically no one, since Kennedy's last name and family privilege is the only reason she's looking like a shoo-in for a job she's ... —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • That legendary performance of "Thriller" by the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Philippines (below) seems like a shoo-in, but what else deserves to make the cut? —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • The two things you can't dispute about the show, however, are that Fox NFL announcer Jillian Barberie looks like a shoo-in for the gold, and that judge Sir John Nicks is no Simon Cowell. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Formerly also shooe, shue, shu, shee, shough, from late Middle English sehowe, ssou, etc.; cf. French chou, Italian scioia, Greek σοῦ, σοῦ, shoo! a vocalized form of 'sh or 'ss, a sibilation used to attract attention. Not connected with G. scheuchen, scare off, etc. (see shy, shewel).
  2. from shoo, interj.
 

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