Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to shoo
Participle: shooed
Gerund: shooing
Indicative
Present
| I | shoo |
| you | shoo |
| he;she;it | shoos |
| we | shoo |
| you | shoo |
| they | shoo |
Perfect
| I | have shooed |
| you | have shooed |
| he;she;it | has shooed |
| we | have shooed |
| you | have shooed |
| they | have shooed |
Past
| I | shooed |
| you | shooed |
| he;she;it | shooed |
| we | shooed |
| you | shooed |
| they | shooed |
Pluperfect
| I | had shooed |
| you | had shooed |
| he;she;it | had shooed |
| we | had shooed |
| you | had shooed |
| they | had shooed |
Future
| I | will shoo |
| you | will shoo |
| he;she;it | will shoo |
| we | will shoo |
| you | will shoo |
| they | will shoo |
Future Perfect
| I | will have shooed |
| you | will have shooed |
| he;she;it | will have shooed |
| we | will have shooed |
| you | will have shooed |
| they | will have shooed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | shoo |
| you | shoo |
| he;she;it | shoo |
| we | shoo |
| you | shoo |
| they | shoo |
Perfect
| I | have shooed |
| you | have shooed |
| he;she;it | have shooed |
| we | have shooed |
| you | have shooed |
| they | have shooed |
Imperfect
| I | shooed |
| you | shooed |
| he;she;it | shooed |
| we | shooed |
| you | shooed |
| they | shooed |
Pluperfect
| I | had shooed |
| you | had shooed |
| he;she;it | had shooed |
| we | had shooed |
| you | had shooed |
| they | had shooed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would shoo |
| you | would shoo |
| he;she;it | would shoo |
| we | would shoo |
| you | would shoo |
| they | would shoo |
Perfect
| I | would have shooed |
| you | would have shooed |
| he;she;it | would have shooed |
| we | would have shooed |
| you | would have shooed |
| they | would have shooed |
Imperative
| you | shoo |
| we | Let's shoo |
| you | shoo |
Verbs conjugated like 'shoo'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'shoo'
shoe,
shog,
shook,
shool,
shoot,
shop,
shot,
show,
whoo,
achoo,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English schew, schowe, show, showe, scou (“shoo!”, interjection). Compare Middle High German schū, schuo (“shoo!”, interjection) (modern German scheu! (“shoo!”)), Dutch schuwen (“to shun”), German scheuchen (“to scare, drive away”). See: Dutch '
schuwen', German, old spelling '
scheuchen'.
Sample Sentences
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Don't just shoo away mosquitoes, kill them!
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See if you can shoo off the insurance salesmen.
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It was those damned bandages over my eyes, the medley of voices that had shouted back at me down the corridor. But I certainly was getting the willies - and once you get 'em, they grow. Already they were past the stage where you can shoo them off by whistling or singing at yourself. [1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 15:]
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You kids had better shoo before your parents get a call.
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Shoo the visitor in.