boo-hoo

Interjection

1. The sound of crying.
   • "Boo-hoo!" cried Lincoln after he hit his funny bone.
2. (colloquial) It is not worth crying about; an expression of contempt.
   • So you broke it. Boo-hoo! Get a grip and clean up the mess.

Verb

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

1. (childish, colloquial, intransitive) To cry, weep.
   • Two baby carriages, two par uv shoes, two soots uv klothes, two everything, too much! too much! too much! And he fairly boo-hooed.1892, Two Hundred Popular Recitations and Readings
2. (intransitive, sarcastic) To complain, whine.
   • 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.1891, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volumes 53-54