Meanings
plural shooers
- A person who shoos something away.
The second [explanation of certain sentences] would focus on the shooer: 'Shoo the fly. Because of that, your eyes will no longer be clogged with flies'. But I was unable to obtain informants' translations or explanations confirming this […]
1995, Nicholas Evans, A Grammar of Kayardild: With Historical-comparative Notes on Tangkic - An improvised device used to shoo away.
The shooer was made from a stick and newspapers—newspaper was cut in strips and attached to a stick. Sticky flypaper hung from the ceiling in the kitchen and dining room to catch flies.
2002, Evelyn McCollum, Nalley, A Southern Family Story, page 232
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shooer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shooer
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