Word.ws English Dictionary

shooing off

shooing off is the present participle and gerund 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 shooing off

What is shooing off the present participle and gerund of?
Shooing off is the present participle and gerund of shoo off.

Words near shooing off in the dictionary

  1. shoogliest
  2. shoogling
  3. shoogly
  4. shooing
  5. shooing away
  6. shooing off
  7. shooings
  8. shook
  9. shook a leg
  10. shook down
  11. shook hands

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shooing off (page history and authors); shoo off (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “shooing off.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shooing_off. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.