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boohoo

[boo-hoo] / ˌbuˈhu /






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“Grief is complicated, like love, and it’s not always just boohoo crying or pissed off and angry. It’s funny sometimes, in a morbid kind of way. It’s awkward. It’s many, many different things.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

They're on the show to bring enough attention to their Instagram accounts, sell some diet teas, possibly land a fashion collaboration with boohoo or some other Instagram boutique.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2021

You will look at his earnings and mock him with a boohoo.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2019

But if you chop, cut, crush or smash one — boohoo.

From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2017

Why, Becky was runnin' on and laughin' jest like a gal at picnic up to the minnit the last man slammed the door, and then, down she went and began to boohoo.

From Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction by Joel Chandler Harris

Then he hands it off to Greg who reads from a soulless statement informing them they've all been fired as Tom fake boohoos off camera.

From Salon ● May 8, 2023

Big boohoos, with little squeals of frustration when she punches her teddy bear.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

“I boohooed through it. When we were writing about it, I started crying,” said Kinsey, who played the stickler, cat-loving accountant, Angela Martin.

From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2022

He claimed it had been boohooed as it was dangerous but no fire could happen as it’s all stone.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 17, 2020

When they went to bat, they were "boohooed" from their opponents' bench.

From Time Magazine Archive

If de Lord in his goodness take you away, let me go wid you, Missus;' and I was so sorry I boohooed right out, and groaned and wipy eye like courtin' amost.

From Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

I boohooed like a kid this morning because they wouldn't let me have broiled ham for breakfast.

From Molly Brown's Sophomore Days by Nell Speed

A majority of the characters hold Hollywood jobs — save for a poet, a musician and a blogger — and an oddly large number are recently single and boohooing over their exes.

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2021

But no amount of boohooing about being lonely and listening to Snow Patrol is going to make it any better.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2012

A few million of her admirers, who have found her vastly appealing, might join in her "detestable boohooing," as Henry Higgins called it.

From Time Magazine Archive

I’m sitting on our brown shag carpet, boohooing like a dang fool, clutching onto Darlene, shoulders shaking worse than an earthquake.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

“Now, no snot-slinging or boohooing about ‘poor ol’ Rex,’” Dad said.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls


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