boo-boo
Example Sentences
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It might be your internet company’s fault, a boo-boo with your home equipment or interference from your neighbor’s Call of Duty game night.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023
Some attestation forms seem impractical, requiring parents to interview their pre-school-age children about their health, when some that age can’t distinguish between a boo-boo and a sore throat.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2022
“Then everybody put a boo-boo on that. They said: ‘What are you doing, ratting on about that?’
From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2020
“We love and miss you, boo-boo and Gigi,” she said to them.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2020
And I sob like a traumatized toddler with a boo-boo on her knee.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.