Meanings
plural boo-boos · alternative booboo · alternative boo boo
- childishcolloquialcountableoftenA mistake or error.
Oh, gosh, golly, I made a boo-boo, and I gave it to Stephen Hawking!
2012, “The Hawking Excitation”, in The Big Bang Theory, season 5, episode 21, spoken by Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons)Synonyms: blooper, blunder, misstep, fluff, oopsy, slip, aberration, bloomer
- childishcolloquialuncountableby or to young childrenFeces.
I been A-1 since day one, you niggas boo-boo Your home boy, your block that you're from, boo-boo Lil' hoes you went to school with, boo-boo Baby mama and your new bitch, boo-boo
2015, “Hood Politics”, performed by Kendrick LamarSynonyms: boom-boom, doo-doo, poo, boom-boom, BM, bowel movement, caca, cack
present singular third person boo-boos · participle present boo-booing · participle past boo-booed · past boo-booed · alternative booboo · alternative boo boo
- childishcolloquialintransitiveTo make a mistake.
We boo-booed in giving the address of California Electric Railway Enthusiasts, and we realized it while mailing the last issue. Correct address is […]
1952, The Ferroequinologist: A Journal for Students of the Iron Horse1 more example
If you do this and feel that you have boo-booed, press Shift+F5, the Go Back keyboard shortcut, to return from whence you came (that is, back to your previous edit).
1999, Dan Gookin, Word 2000 For Dummies - childishcolloquialtransitiveby or to young childrenTo defecate.
We didn't start demonizing Socialists until the 50s when everyone boo-booed they pants about communist russia.
2017, /u/thesnakeinthegarden, “Oh god. Donna Brazile opened her mouth again.”, in Reddit4 more examples
I went upstairs and Joseph, my husband, he came upstairs and found some boo boo on the floor. My little girl boo booed on herself downstairs as I was getting ready to clean her up.
1974, The Southeastern Reporter“Ya know, I don't know what is wrong with my stomach. I must have eaten something spoiled at the job. I was at a customer's home climbing a pole, and I started boo-booing on myself. I got off the pole and took some of the leaves to wipe my butt. Man, that's a horrible feeling.”
2012, Carolyn Herring-Moore, When Enough is Enough: When You’re Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired, Xlibris, →ISBN, page unknownI'm still going through so much shock. I can't go through all this. My stomach is rumbling. I have to use the restroom so bad. I was about to boo boo on myself but I remembered what the nurse told me the earlier.
2012, Reginald Killings, I Am Drama City: Trust, Love, Loyalty Is All We Know, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 34Imagine a little kid in a big ass button down coat sitting in a car and then just saying I boo booed on myself.
2017, /u/Dwelld, “What was the worst situation you have crapped your pants?”, in RedditSynonyms: poo, cack, choke a darkie, crap, defecate, do one's ease, ease oneself, do a number two
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA mistake or error.
nounA minor injury, such as a cut or a bruise.
nounFeces.
verbTo defecate.
More synonyms by meaning
nounan embarrassing mistake
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Frenchbobo“boo-boo”
- Englishboo-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”)
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Basque pupu
- pupuminor injury
Czech bebí
- bebíminor injury
Finnish pipi
- pipiminor injury
French bobo
- bobominor injury
German Wehweh
- Wehwehminor injury
Hungarian bibi
- bibiminor injury
Italian bua
- buaminor injury
Polish kuku
- kukuminor injury
Portuguese dodói, dói-dói
- dodóiminor injury
- dói-dóiminor injury
Russian бо-бо
- бо-бо (bo-bo)minor injury
Spanish yaya, pupa
- yayaminor injury
- pupaminor injury
- rasponcitominor injury
- yayaiminor injury
Welsh popo
- popominor injury
Cite this entry
boo-boo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boo-boo
“boo-boo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boo-boo. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boo-boo,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boo-boo.
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