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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
boohoo .
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Examples
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"She boohooed a lot, and it was hard on me, too," he adds.
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βThe Knicks are down by three with eleven seconds left in the final quarter,β Rush boohooed, as he joined Thad and Saadiq at the dining room table.
Sin in Soul's Kitchen Andrew Oye 2009
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Mother said when Marster come he wus dead shore enough, dat marster jest boohooed an 'went to de house, an' wouldn't look at him no more till dey started to take him to de grave.
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Well, I hobbled along, and we ploughed all day; and come night, I boohooed and cried a good deal, and the children gits round me, and asks 'What's the matter, Peter?'
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I am rejoiced to learn that the two factions of Texas Baptists, after having for months past denounced each other in language that smelled of sulphur and would have disgraced opposing parties of Parisian gamins -- after resorting to all the petty meanness of peanut politics to control the flesh-pots -- have kissed and hugged, slobbered and boohooed each on the other's brisket.
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The tears jest run down most everybody's face, and when the mourners wuz addressed, why, big, hefty men all round me jest boohooed right out.
Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881
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Well, when we got all ready to start, I wanted to stay, and I boohooed and boohooed; and Mr. Starling says to master, 'I want your boy to come in the store a minute;'
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She kept a dancin right up and down, like one ravin distracted mad, and boohooed like any thing, clawin away at her head the whole time, to clear away the stuff that stuck to her wool.
The Clockmaker β or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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"She boohooed a lot, and it was hard on me, too," he adds.
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Where's Colin Powell, where's Condi Rice ... boohooed out, because they don't fit into the RNC White KKK World?
ModerateVoters.org 2008
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