boo-hoo

alternative boo hoo · alternative boohoo · alternative boohoohoo

1. The sound of crying.

   "Boo-hoo!" cried Lincoln after he hit his funny bone.

2. colloquialIt is not worth crying about; an expression of contempt.

   So you broke it. Boo-hoo! Get a grip and clean up the mess.

present singular third person boo-hoos · participle present boo-hooing · participle past boo-hooed · past boo-hooed · alternative boo hoo · alternative boohoo · alternative boohoohoo

1. childishcolloquialintransitiveTo cry, weep.

   Two baby carriages, two par uv shoes, two soots uv klothes, two everything, too much! too much! too much! And he fairly boo-hooed.

   1892, Two Hundred Popular Recitations and Readings

2. intransitivesarcasticTo complain, whine.

   Excited leaders of the people denounced it in unmeasured epithet, and the crowd boo-hooed outside its offices in Collins Street, but the writers of the journal went their unmoved way, as British journalists have a knack of doing.

   1891, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volumes 53-54