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boo-booing

boo-booing is the present participle and gerund of boo-boo.

Meaning of boo-boo

Verb

boo-boo (third-person singular simple present boo-boos, present participle boo-booing, simple past and past participle boo-booed)

  1. (childish, colloquial, intransitive) To make a mistake.
    • We boo-booed in giving the address of California Electric Railway Enthusiasts, and we realized it while mailing the last issue. Correct address is […]1952, The Ferroequinologist: A Journal for Students of the Iron Horse
  2. (childish, colloquial, transitive, by or to young children) To defecate.
    • I went upstairs and Joseph, my husband, he came upstairs and found some boo boo on the floor. My little girl boo booed on herself downstairs as I was getting ready to clean her up.1974, The Southeastern Reporter

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Questions about boo-booing

What is boo-booing the present participle and gerund of?
Boo-booing is the present participle and gerund of boo-boo.

Words near boo-booing in the dictionary

  1. boo up
  2. boo'd
  3. boo-boo
  4. boo-boo bus
  5. boo-booed
  6. boo-booing
  7. boo-boos
  8. boo-daddies
  9. boo-daddy
  10. boo-hag
  11. boo-hags

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boo-booing (page history and authors); boo-boo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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