Definitions for shoos

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shoos shoo

Spelling: [shoo]

IPA: /ʃu/

Shoos is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in shoos (hooss).

Definitions for shoos

interjection

1. (used to scare or drive away a cat, dog, chickens, birds, etc.)

verb (used with object)

1. to drive away by saying or shouting “shoo.”.
2. to request or force (a person) to leave:

verb (used without object)

1. to call out “shoo.”.

Origin of shoos

1475-85; earlier showe, shough, shooh, ssou (interjection), imitative; compare German schu

Examples for shoos

No hale man ever loves him; he stirs the sportsman's wrath; the whole world kicks and shoves him and shoos him from the path.

Sarah bustled him out of the room, as one shoos chickens, and I lay back on my pillows and laughed.

The Dummy was gone—the Senior Nurse had shooed him off as one shoos a chicken.