2. Verb. (present participle of boo) ¹
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Definition of Booing
1. boo [v] - See also: boo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Booing
Literary usage of Booing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"called booing, and a Spanish proverb cited by Tylor (Prim. Cult. 188) shows that
the same mode of representing the sound is familiar in Spain. ..."
2. Choice Readings for Public and Private Entertainments: And for the Use of edited by Robert McLean Cumnock (1898)
"THE UTILITY OF booing. This selection is taken from an old English play, "The
Man of the World." It was written to satirize a mean old Scotchman who amassed ..."
3. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by David Patrick, Robert Chambers (1902)
"Sir, it is wonderful to think what a cordial, what an amicable—nay, what an
infallible influence booing has upon the pride and vanity of human nature. ..."
4. Charles Macklin by Edward Abbott Parry (1891)
"till at length, sir, I became a much wealthier mon than one- half of the golden
calves I had been so long a-booing to; and was nae that booing to some ..."
5. Jones's British Theatre. (1795)
"... i' the prefence of a great man ; but was aw ways booing, and booing, and
booing—afs—afs— if it were by ... booing has upon the pride and vanity of human ..."
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