What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Weep vs Boohoo - What's the difference?

weep | boohoo |

As verbs the difference between weep and boohoo

is that weep is to cry; shed tears while boohoo is to cry, weep.

As nouns the difference between weep and boohoo

is that weep is the lapwing; the wipe while boohoo is the woohoo, or sailfish.

weep

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) wepen, from (etyl) .

Verb

  • To cry; shed tears.
  • * Longfellow
  • They wept together in silence.
  • To lament; to complain.
  • * Bible, Numbers xi. 13
  • They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
  • (medicine, of a, wound or sore) To produce secretions.
  • To flow in drops; to run in drops.
  • a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
  • * Shakespeare
  • The blood weeps from my heart.
  • To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
  • (obsolete) To weep over; to bewail.
  • * Prior
  • Fair Venus wept the sad disaster / Of having lost her favorite dove.
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * weep in one's beer * weepy * weeping willow

    Etymology 2

    Imitative of its cry.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The lapwing; the wipe.
  • boohoo

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cry, weep.
  • *2011 , (Grace Dent), The Guardian , 8 Jul 2011:
  • *:"It feels inevitable," he boohooed . Of course it was inevitable – he used to tweet at least six times an hour, endless say-what-you-see drivel.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The woohoo, or sailfish.
  • (Webster 1913)