What is "shooing"

Usage examples of "shooing".

Get you out of the room so you cannot be tempted, scaredy cat,” and Kelly made shooing gestures with her hands at Hrriss.

And she backed up her words with determined shooing motions with her hands.

Charity served, the woman made shooing motions with her cloth again, and Grace went.

The two adults had, with much clucking and shooing, rounded up the two giggling curtain-climbers and got them indoors.

She nodded again, satisfied, and dropped her hand from the maid's arm, making a little shooing gesture.

He made a brief shooing gesture, and Roger-puce with mortification but stiff with dignity-departed at once.

He smiled and nodded, making little shooing gestures to get them out of the way.

Joy corked her water skin, then went about opening the pig and goat pens, shooing the animals out onto the plateau.

Zebedee went after her sons like she was shooing chickens out of the garden.

I said, pushing the old woman away and shooing her into the back room.

The Chinese men were snatching up bits and pieces from the personal baggage, shooing smaller children into the vicinity of the half-grown girls, yelling at each other to hurry.