shoo

Followed by a transitive particle

• away: Wrong, wrong, says Tolent, we only want to shoo away subcontractors with spurious claims.
• off: A friendly mooring warden came along and shooed off some kids cycling!

Object

• fly: We saw Kuma sleeping in the shade; his tail wagged around a few times shooing the fly 's away.
• wop: But I didn't put the bop in bop shoo wop - that was someone else.
• dog: His owner followed him, intending to shoo the dog back out and close the door properly.
• bird: Eleanor had to shoo the bird away, which meant she was climbing away from the car instead of closing in on it.

Modifying Another Word

• away: Little brother Kurt was shooed away from the bedroom again.
• quickly: This young upstart only became a Munro in 1981, but is quickly shooed back to the ranks.
• then: I then shooed Slinky into the house, and he hissed at me!

Followed by an intransitive particle

• off: In the past I've " shooed off " some classes of questions --- particularly regarding X Windows configuration and similar items.