Boo vs Food - What's the difference?
boo | food |
A loud exclamation intended to scare someone, especially a child. Usually used when one has been hidden from the victim and then suddenly appeared unexpectedly.
A word used ironically in a situation where one might have scared someone, but said someone was not scared. Not said as loudly as in definition 1.
An exclamation used by a member or many members of an audience, as at a stage play or sports game, to indicate derision or disapproval of what has just occurred.
A derisive shout made to indicate disapproval.
* {{quote-news
, year=2010
, date=December 29
, author=Sam Sheringham
, title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton
, work=BBC
To shout extended boos derisively.
* 2004 , The New Yorker, 18 Oct 2004
To derisively shout extended boos at.
(uncountable) Any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (countable) A foodstuff.
(uncountable, figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains.
* (and other bibiographic particulars) (William Shakespeare)
* (and other bibiographic particulars) (William Wordsworth)
As nouns the difference between boo and food
is that boo is a derisive shout made to indicate disapproval while food is any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.As an interjection boo
is a loud exclamation intended to scare someone, especially a child. Usually used when one has been hidden from the victim and then suddenly appeared unexpectedly.As a verb boo
is to shout extended boos derisively.boo
English
Etymology 1
Coined to create a loud and startling sound. Compare Latin .Interjection
(en interjection)Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=...Hodgson headed down the tunnel with the boos of fans ringing in his ears after an eighth league defeat of the season...}}
Verb
(en verb)- When he took the podium, the crowd booed .
- Nobody booed and nobody clapped
- The protesters loudly booed the visiting senator.
Etymology 2
From beau.Anagrams
* * ----food
English
Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
- Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
- This may prove food to my displeasure.
- In this moment there is life and food / For future years.
