shoo n Cp OED ~ int1. Person who orders people aside to clear space for performance of Christmas mumming play; cp ROOMER.
1973 WIDDOWSON 419 Even those mummers who perform the mumming plays behave as strangers in that they are usually preceded by 'fools' or 'the shoo' or other functionaries who have authority to clear the houses where the play is to be acted.
