hoo boy
English
Alternative forms
- hoo-boy
- hoo, boy
Interjection
hoo boy
- Used to express strong emotion.
- 2009, Richard Scrimger, The Boy from Earth, →ISBN, page 146:
- It sounds a lot like a ... well, like a fart, but—hoo boy—I would not like to be standing behind whoever it was that let it out.
- 2015, Chris Loblaw, The Patchwork Boy, →ISBN, page 138:
- Mallory exhaled noisily. “Hoo boy, I was hoping to leave that one alone for a while. Like, years and years."
- 2015, Huntley Fitzpatrick, The Boy Most Likely To, →ISBN, page 274:
- “Hoo boy,” Duff says under his breath. “Jase got burned deep on that pass.”
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