The story
- French · borrowed frombobo“boo-boo”
- English todayboo-boo
* Possibly from bug-a-boo, an imaginary evil goblin. * Possibly from bubo, a swollen lymph node especially obvious in sufferers of bubonic plague. * Possibly from the sound a baby or young toddler might make. * Possibly borrowed from French bobo (“boo-boo”)
Words from the same roots
Frenchbobo all →
bobo
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.