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Origin, meaning, and derivation of boof as a verb in U. S. slang Interesting, another user who professes to have been a teenager in the early 1980s but it still doesn't answer the question as to the origins of "boof" in slang and how it was used as a verb The OP specifically asks: 1 What is the earliest published instance of boof as a verb? and 2 What did boof as a verb originally mean?
Boo as a term of endearment - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Here's an instance of "Boo Boo" as a pet name or term of endearment from The Martin Marauder and the Franklin Allens: A Wartime Love Story, published in 1980 but presented in the form of letters written in the early 1940s—long before Yogi and Boo-Boo Bear The Hathi Trust edition of the book refers to the contents as having been "collected" by three people—so it may really by from the
etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange An expression of negativity An exclaimation of disapproval of the current situation at hand OED lists the interjectional and the second noun sense together and the earliest example is the sound of a collie: Imitation of a gruff abrupt bark of a dog; also transf (Cf whoof int )