noun

1. Etymology: < phr. shoo, fly, don't bother me, in a Civil War nonsense song

   Historical a kind of shuffling dance
2. a child's rocker with a seat mounted between supports typically designed in the form of horses, swans, etc.

3. Etymology: said to be so named from attracting flies which must be shooed away

   an open pie with a filling of molasses and brown sugar
   in full shoofly pie