huer
French, verb/y.e/
huer is spelled H-U-E-R (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 42,802nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Huer is a French verb meaning “to boo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Poursuivre le loup avec des huées”.
What does huer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to boo
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Poursuivre le loup avec des huées. 2. Émettre des cris de dérision à l’encontre de quelqu’un pour marquer son opposition, son mécontentement. 3. Pousser leur cri, en parlant de certains oiseaux, en particulier le héron, la chouette et le hibou.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of huer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- huant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- hué participle past
- hue first-person indicative present
- hues indicative present second-person
- huons first-person indicative plural
- huez indicative plural present
- huent indicative plural present
- huais first-person imperfect indicative
- huait imperfect indicative singular
- huions first-person imperfect indicative
- huiez imperfect indicative plural
- huaient imperfect indicative plural
- huai first-person historic indicative
- huas historic indicative past
- hua historic indicative past
- huâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce huer?
- /y.e/
- ^((h aspiré))\y.e\
- [y.e]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to huer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is huer in French?
huer appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).