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Shool vs Shoo - What's the difference?

shool | shoo |

As verbs the difference between shool and shoo

is that shool is to move materials with a shovel while shoo is (informal) to induce someone or something to leave.

As a noun shool

is a shovel.

As an interjection shoo is

(informal|demeaning) go away]]! [[clear off|clear off!.

shool

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A shovel
  • * 1611' ''And the pots, and the '''shouels , and the snuffers, and the spoones, and all the vessels of brasse wherewith they ministred, tooke they away. (2 Kings 25:14, Authorized Version of 1611 (King James Version), 1611 edition)
  • * 2003 And the pots, and the shovels, and the wick trimmers, and the ladles, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered, they took away. (2 Kings 25:14, Authorized Version of 1611 (King James Version), 2003 edition)
  • A spade
  • * 2010' "'''shool spade ''see'' shovel" (''A Bibliography of English Etymology, Volumes 1-2 by Anatoly Liberman, Ari Hoptman, Nathan E. Carlson, U of Minnesota Press, 2010, page 785)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move materials with a shovel.
    • The workers were shooling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.
  • (figuratively) To move with a shoveling motion, to cover as by shoveling
  • * 1898' ''The Winter's Tale [Annotated]'' by William Shakespeare, H. H. Furness, page 236, ''[Annotation for line] 511. shouels-in...Jamieson (Scottish Dict. Suppl.) gives:'' 'Shool'', A shovel' and'' 'To '''shool on'', metaph. to cover, as in a grave.'
  • To shuffle or shamble
  • * 1988' ''Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus'', Merriam-Webster, ISBN 0-87779-169-4, (page 652), ''"scuffle ''vb''...''2 syn'' , scuffle, shamble, , , '''shool''', shovel"''; (page 670) ''"shuffle ''vb'' ''syn'' scuff, scuffle, shamble, , , '''shool , shovel"

    • References

    * Lexic.us, Retrieved 2013-02-14 *: Definition of Shool 1. to shovel [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: shovel * TheFreeDictionary.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14 *: shool n (Engineering / Tools) a dialect word for shovel , * Dictionary.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14 *: shool — n a dialect word for shovel , * Merriam-Webster.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14 *: ''Definition of SHOOL... *: ''1 chiefly dial : to drag or scrape along : shamble, shuffle *: 2: to loaf or idle about begging : loiter, saunter

    shoo

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (informal) To induce someone or something to leave.
    • Don't just shoo away mosquitoes, kill them!
    See if you can shoo off the insurance salesmen.
  • (informal) To leave under inducement.
    • You kids had better shoo before your parents get a call.
  • (informal, rare) To usher someone.
    • Shoo the visitor in.

    Derived terms

    * shoo away * shoo-in * shoo off

    Interjection

  • (informal, demeaning) Go away]]! [[clear off, Clear off!

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