What is "Nanny Boo Boo"?

Question

What does it mean? Is it a fictional character like "Lil Miss Muppet" or "the old woman who lived in the shoe"?
Help?

Answer 1

good question. i've only heard it in the context of children teasing each other... as in "nanny nanny boo boo, you can't catch me..."
my guess would be something like the boogyman, or baba yaga... a folkloric witch. Nanny and Baba mean pretty much the same thing... "grandma" or "old woman", and "boo"... scary.

Answer 2

Probably the name of some old ugly witch or hag someone came up with to scare little kids into doing things. Problem is , sometimes when these characters are "created" they do sometimes tend to take on a "life" of their own. Power of the mind, you know.

Answer 3

never heard of it, I've heard of Na Na Na boo boo, you know like, a child making fun of another

Answer 4

This song is available on Joe Scruggs' Deep in the Jungle.



Deep in the jungle
Where they don't deliver mail,
Three little monkeys
Were hanging by their tails,

And whenever
They didn't have anything to do
They'd go down to the river and call out,
"Yoo-hoo, yoo-hoo, oh, yoo-hoo.
Mr. Crocodile, Mr. Crocodile."
They'd stick their thumbs
In their ears and say:

"Oh Crocky dear."
"Nanny nanny boo boo
You can't catch us
Even if you wanted to.
Nanny nanny boo boo
You can't catch us.
Nanny nanny boo boo to you."

Now, old Mr. Crocodile, he's lazy and fat
Yeah, but he's no dummy
He knows where it's at.

He says, "Little monkey,
There's water in my ear.
Come a little closer so that I can hear."
Then all of the sudden and just like that
Mr. Crocodile's mighty jaws go snap!
Deep in the jungle
Where there are no power lines,
Two little monkeys
Were swinging from the vines,

And whenever
They didn't have anything to do
They'd go down to the river
And they'd say,

"Yoo-hoo, yoo-hoo, oh, yoo-hoo,
Mr. Crocodile, Mr. Crocodile."
They'd stick their thumbs
In their ears and say,

"Oh, Crocky dear."
"Nanny nanny boo boo
You can't catch us
Even if you wanted to.
Nanny nanny boo boo
You can't catch us
Nanny nanny boo boo to you."

Now, old Mr. Crocodile
Just lies in the sun
While the two little monkeys
Are having their fun.

And he says, "Little monkeys
You've got nothing to fear
Come a little closer so that I can hear."

Then all of a sudden and just like that
Mr. Crocodile's mighty jaws go snap!

Deep in the jungle
where there are no telephones,
One little monkey was playing all alone,

And whenever
He didn't have anything to do
He'd go down to the river
And call out, "Yoo-hoo, yoo-hoo, oh, yoo-hoo
Mr. Crocodile, oh Mr. Crocodile,"

He'd stick his thumbs in his ears and say,
"Hey Crock, over here."
"Nanny nanny boo boo
You can't catch me
Even if you wanted to.
No, no, nanny nanny boo boo
You can't catch me
Nanny nanny boo boo to you."

Now old Mr. Crocodile knows what to do
He waits 'til the little monkey is through and
He says, "Hey little monkey,
If you'd like to play come a little closer and
make my day."

Then all of a sudden and just like that
Mr. Crocodile's mighty jaws go snap!

Deep in the jungle where nobody sees,
Old Mr. Crocodile is fat as can be,
And whenever he doesn't have anything to do,
He swims and he sings,

"One, two, three, four,
Nanny nanny boo boo to you!"






Many thanks to Joe Scruggs for permission to publish these lyrics.

© 1986 Educational Graphics Press, Inc. All rights reserved.

from another website - an example

They're not on your website, but do you have XXXXX?
If they are not on the website, even if we have them, they're ours and we're keeping them - so nanny nanny boo boo!

looks as tho it is the equivelent of 'yah boo sucks!'

Answer 5

My dead Grandmother..

Why bring up those sad memories?