Whatever the origins, the word had a slightly different shade of meaning a few hundred years ago: Boo (or, in the olden days, ...

Each week The Sun’s John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar — another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week ...

Why do we use the word "boo" when we are displeased with something, and also when we want to scare someone? Boo, including variations such as "bo" or "boh," goes back around 500 years.

Ah, we must be thankful today to politics for exposing us to what is to many a new English word: ‘boo.’ Not as in scary gremlins at Halloween. But as in ‘She’s my boo’ (girlfriend) or ...

Depicting famous author Edgar Allan Poe mouthing the word “Boo!”, this unpainted 11.5″ bust won’t fail to frighten off the most courageous of crows… and possibly even an aggressive ...