boo-hoo
/ˌbuːˈhuː/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.27 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""Boo-hoo!" cried Lincoln after he hit his funny bone."
- "So you broke it. Boo-hoo! Get a grip and clean up the mess."
- "Two baby carriages, two par uv shoes, two soots uv klothes, two everything, too much! too much! too much! And he fairly boo-hooed."
- "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."