verb. (colloquial).—To cry; to bawl; to bellow: NAP THE BIB (q.v.): onomatopœia.
1837. R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends, ‘The Babes in the Wood.’
| The babes … pass’d all that day and that night | |
| In wandering about and ‘BOO-HOO’-ING. |
1841. E. G. PAIGE (‘Dow, Jr.’), Short Patent Sermons, II. 277 [BARTLETT]. You will go down to your graves BOO-HOOING like a kicked booby.
1847. J. M. FIELD, The Drama in Pokerville, 91. And here the little woman ‘BOO-HOO’D right out,’ as the orientals of Varmount have it, and threw herself incontinently full on to his breast, and hung round his neck, and went on in a surprising way for such a mere artificial as an actress.
