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third-person singular simple present shoos, present participle shooing, simple past and past participle shooed
(transitive, informal) To induce someone or something to leave. examples
(intransitive, informal) To leave under inducement. examples
(informal, rare) To usher someone.
(informal, demeaning) Go away! Clear off! examples
(Yorkshire) Alternative form of she quotations examples
Hearken, hearken, shoo’s cursing on em!” muttered Joseph, towards whom I had been steering.
1847, Emily Brontë, chapter II, in Wuthering Heights, New York: Harper Brothers, published 1855, page 15