Weep vs Boohoo - What's the difference?
weep | boohoo |
To cry; shed tears.
* Longfellow
To lament; to complain.
* Bible, Numbers xi. 13
(medicine, of a, wound or sore) To produce secretions.
To flow in drops; to run in drops.
* Shakespeare
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
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
- They wept together in silence.
- They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
- a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
- The blood weeps from my heart.
- Fair Venus wept the sad disaster / Of having lost her favorite dove.