boo-boo face

n. a pout or pouty facial expression; moue; boo-boo lip, an out-thrust lip. Subjects: English, Body

Editorial Note: Probably from the facial expression children make when they have a boo-boo ‘minor injury.’

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Citations: 1991 [Pamela D. Hanes] Usenet: soc.singles (Mar. 13) “Re: sexual fantasies”: Michel, I’m soooo jealous… )-; (Best boo-boo face on the net….) 1993 [Cricket] Usenet: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery (Dec. 8) “ED ED ED”: But I caaaaaaaaaan’t telnet, only send mail ( big whine )!! Can you please show me the way? Boo-boo lip sticking out bigtime. 1994 Stan Savran Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Penn.) (June 11) “Mother Of All Strikes Premature End To Season Could Help Baseball In Long Run” p. D6: You’ll stomp your feet and put on your best boo-boo face and spew forth about how you’re not coming back, and that this time you really mean it. But you’ll come back. You always have. 1994 C. Johnston Courier-Mail (Australia) (July 25) “Annalise’s Exit A Crying Shame”: Drawing on the heaviest weapon from her considerable thespian arsenal, she makes a boo-boo face. As the tears stream down her cheeks, it is apparent to all but southern TV critics that Annalise has firmed in the betting for next year’s Gold Logie. I’ll go out on a limb here and state that no soap star makes boo-boo face like Annalise….He said he was bloody upset too, and promised at the next premiers’ conference to put up for debate the question of whether watching Annalise make boo-boo face deserves to be included in the Medicare schedule. 2000 Tina Wainscott A Trick of the Light (Mar. 1) p. 29: “She’s so banged up,” Marilee wailed. “Bruised, a gash on her lip, a scrape on her cheek, those beautiful curls all matted with blood. Girls, she has her boo-boo face on.” 2003 St. Petersburg Times (Florida) (Nov. 9) “Sapp should chase QBs, not spotlight” p. 13C: It is such a refreshing sight to see Warren the Sapp standing on the sideline with his boo-boo lip hanging out, looking “dumb"-founded, with nothing to say. 2004 Ian Demsky Tennessean (Nashville) (May 1) “Police chief encourages letter writers” p. 8: “We’re not going to boo-boo lip,” he said. “I’m not going to come here and tell you what we can’t do. I’m not going to tell you what we don’t have. I’m not going to tell you all the reasons in the world you shouldn’t hold us accountable.”

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Reader comments:

actually…its more of a i smell boo-boo face. you know like you just smelt crap. i.e boo-boo.

by monica 27 Mar 08, 0935 GMT