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shooed off

shooed off is the simple past and past participle of shoo off.

Meaning of shoo off

Verb

shoo off (third-person singular simple present shooes off, present participle shooing off, simple past and past participle shooed off)

  1. (transitive) To send away; to shoo.
    • Even when Holmes & Watson stumbles into something that could, in theory, make a decent gag—as in a scene where Watson tries to dictate a drunk, late-night telegram to Dr. Hart, or a visit to the Diogenes Club that finds him shooed off to a side room for idiot sidekicks—it bungles it with bad timing...2018 December 25, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly hit career lows in the abysmally unfunny Holmes & Watson”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2019

Questions about shooed off

What is shooed off the simple past and past participle of?
Shooed off is the simple past and past participle of shoo off.

Words near shooed off in the dictionary

  1. shoodent
  2. Shoodur
  3. Shoodurs
  4. shooed
  5. shooed away
  6. shooed off
  7. shooee
  8. shooer
  9. shooers
  10. shooes off
  11. shooflies

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