boo-boo

• booboo, boo boo

• Possibly from bug-a-boo, an imaginary evil goblin.
• Possibly from bubo, a swollen lymph node especially obvious in sufferers of bubonic plague.
• Possibly from the sound a baby or young toddler might make.
• Possibly borrowed from French bobo (“boo-boo”)

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈbuːˌbuː/

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boo-boo (countable and uncountable, plural boo-boos)

1. (countable, colloquial, often childish) A mistake or error.
2. (countable, colloquial, childish, by or to young children) A minor injury, such as a cut or a bruise.
3. (uncountable, colloquial, childish, by or to young children) Feces.

boo-boo (third-person singular simple present boo-boos, present participle boo-booing, simple past and past participle boo-booed)

1. (colloquial, childish, by or to young children) To defecate.

Sometimes used sarcastically regarding overreaction to a very minor injury, as in "Aw, did the little boy get a boo-boo?"

• (error): blooper, blunder, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, slip, stumble, thinko
• (minor injury): owie, scrape, bruise, nick, scratch
• (void one’s bowels): (slang) crap, (obsolete) drite, (slang) dump, (informal) pinch a loaf, (informal, humorous) drop a bomb, (informal, humorous) drop the kids off at the pool, (vulgar) shit, (vulgar) shite, (vulgar) take a shit, (slang) take a dump, (informal) drop a deuce

• defecation
• fæces

• na-na na-na boo-boo
• Thesaurus:error
• Thesaurus:injury
• Thesaurus:defecate