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boo-hooray

adj

Etymology

A reference to the interjections boo and hooray which provide no information beyond the emotional reaction of the speaker.

Definitions

  1. Having no meaning beyond the emotional reaction of the speaker

    Having no meaning beyond the emotional reaction of the speaker; emotivist.

    • When I first came to the House of Commons I did not understand the legal use of the term " reasonable," which seemed to me a value judgment and to fall into the " boo-hooray " school.
    • It need not be a non-operational, merely 'boo-hooray' expression.
    • It hardly needs to be said that the results of this method are frustratingly dissatisfying, for the words tend to occur in speech and writing as mere boo-hooray words.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for boo-hooray. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA