What's the difference between shoo and sloo?

Shoo


Definition:

  • (interj.) Begone; away; -- an expression used in frightening away animals, especially fowls.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Currently a junior employment minister, she has been widely tipped as a shoo-in for Ken Clarke's job in the cabinet as minister for TV studios (or minister without portfolio, to give it its official title).
  • (2) 11.07am BST Just think, if this had happened 10 years ago, Martin O'Neill would have been a shoo-in for the job.
  • (3) The world of Eurovision is also strangely comforting: at some level it takes me back to the world of childhood eisteddfods, where I regularly performed public atrocities on a number of alleged artforms believing myself a shoo-in for a guest appearance on Young Talent Time and, in time, a Logie.
  • (4) Conservative Central Office is certainly not assuming that a recession would mean the election is a shoo-in for them.
  • (5) Like American Hustle, another madcap 70s period piece which it somewhat resembles, it could be a shoo-in for major awards come 2015.
  • (6) The frontrunner in the Swedish general election this weekend is scrambling to stop his campaign being damaged after he shooed away a political adversary during a television debate.
  • (7) Poulter is, in fact, a shoo-in to captain this continent in the future.
  • (8) Visiting Corby this week, Ed Miliband was keen to play down expectations that Labour is a shoo-in for the byelection caused by Louise Mensch's resignation, the Guardian reported.
  • (9) Add to that its pretensions to nation-building and the rather woolly hope that this will persuade the likes of South Sudan and North Korea to sign up to the chemical weapons treaty, and the OPCW was a shoo-in.
  • (10) Not only did the drama about King George VI's struggles to overcome a stutter on the eve of the second world war proceed to take the award for best picture and the awards for which it was a shoo-in – best actor for Colin Firth and best original screenplay for David Seidler – it also, in the evening's sole upset, won the best director prize for Tom Hooper.
  • (11) In February 2011 Pinewood announced a partnership deal to shoo movies at a studio in the Dominican Republic which it hopes will give it a foothold in the fast-growing Latin American film and TV market.
  • (12) Stella Creasy is possibly best known to date for being shooed away from a members-only lift in the House of Commons by a Tory minister who refused to believe that this "blonde woman" could be an MP because she looked "too young".
  • (13) But his decision to shoo police officers off the steps of St Paul's 12 days ago and support the peaceful anti-capitalist protest on his doorstep catapulted him into the media stratosphere.
  • (14) If you try to shoo people from each area as they are priced out by rents, at some point they’re going to mind.
  • (15) The 23-year-old Maasai is the 800m world champion and world record holder, and the closest thing there is to a shoo-in for a gold medal on the track at the 2012 Games.
  • (16) Initially, deputy clerk Lana Gordon said she wasn't sure she had the authority and shooed the couples from her office.
  • (17) Bauer is not in active negotiations with BBC Worldwide over the sale of its magazine division, effectively ending months of speculation the German publisher is a shoo-in to become the new owner of titles including Top Gear and Radio Times.
  • (18) Italy need to win to be sure of going through, and that ain't a shoo-in.
  • (19) With Sheen such a shoo-in for the lead, producers will now be busily searching for an actor who looks like 2,500 square miles of spilt crude oil.
  • (20) Were his connections with the most powerful media empire in the land related to the fact that he was an obvious shoo-in?

Sloo


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Slue

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