boo-hoo

English

Verb

boo-hoo (third-person singular simple present boo-hoos, present participle boo-hooing, simple past and past participle boo-hooed)

1. Alternative form of boohoo.
   • 1892, Two Hundred Popular Recitations and Readings‎^[1]:

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

   • 1891, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volumes 53-54‎^[2]:

     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.