booing
booing noun: a disapproving exclamation by a member of an audience. Also the present participle and gerund of boo.
Noun
booing (plural booings)
- A disapproving exclamation by a member of an audience.
- How is women's music to be defined for the purpose of holding a national women's music festival? In the past five years, the festival apparently experienced controversy due to contrasting definitions of women's music. There were walkouts and booings of performers who didn't fit within the...1979 August 18, Maida Tilchen, “The Diversity of Women's Music”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 5, page 9
- The riot sometimes spills over into the audience, and Kosky bears the proud scars of the booings he has endured.2010, Peter Conrad, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 52
Also used as
booing is also the present participle and gerund of boo.
booing meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malayalam
booing in Hindi
- बूइंग, बूइंग करना
booing in Marathi
- बूइंग
booing in Telugu
- బూయింగ్
booing in Malayalam
- ബൂയിംഗ്, ബൂയിംഗ് ചെയ്യുന്നതിലേക്ക്
More languagesFewer languages
- booing in Kannada
- ಬೂಯಿಂಗ್, ಬೂಯಿಂಗ್ಗೆ
- booing in Gujarati
- બૂઇંગ, બૂઈંગ, બૂંગિંગ
Forms of booing
| plural | booings |
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Questions about booing
- What does booing mean?
- Booing means a disapproving exclamation by a member of an audience.
- What is booing in Hindi?
- Booing in Hindi is बूइंग, बूइंग करना. See Booing meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is booing?
- Booing is a noun.
- What is the plural of booing?
- The plural of booing is booings.
Words near booing in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: booing (page history and authors); booing (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); booing (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); booing (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); booing (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); booing (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); booing (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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