different between hoot vs jeer

English

Etymology

From Middle English houten, huten, hoten, of North Germanic origin, from or related to Old Swedish huta (“to cast out in contempt”), related to Middle High German hiuzen, h?zen (“to call to pursuit”), Swedish hut! (“begone!”, interjection), Dutch hui (“ho, hallo”), Danish huj (“ho, hallo”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hu?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Noun

hoot (plural hoots)

1. A derisive cry or shout.
2. The cry of an owl.

3. (US, slang) A fun event or person. (See hootenanny)

4. A small particle.

Usage notes

• (derisive cry) The phrase a hoot and a holler has a very different meaning to hoot and holler. The former is a short distance, the latter is a verb of derisive cry.
• (small particle) The term is nearly always encountered in a negative sense in such phrases as don't care a hoot or don't give two hoots.

Translations

Verb

hoot (third-person singular simple present hoots, present participle hooting, simple past and past participle hooted)

1. To cry out or shout in contempt.
2. To make the cry of an owl, a hoo.

   • The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders / At our quaint spirits.
3. To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.

4. To sound the horn of a vehicle

Translations

See also

• hooter
• hootenanny
• give a hoot

Anagrams

• Htoo, OTOH, otoh, thoo, toho

Finnish

Noun

hoot

1. Nominative plural form of hoo.

Anagrams

• Ohto, ohto, toho

Middle English

Adjective

hoot

1. hot

Descendants

• English: hot

Scots

Alternative forms

• hout, hut, hute, howt, het

Etymology

Imitative. Compare English tut, Scottish Gaelic och.

Interjection

hoot

1. Precedes a disagreeing or contradictory statement.
2. An expression of annoyance or disapproval.

Usage notes

• Frequently used in the set phrases hoot mon or hoots mon.

Derived terms

• hoot awa
• hoot aye
• hoot fie, hoot fye
• hoot mon, hoots mon
• hoot na
• hoot-toot, hoots-toots, hout tout
• hoot-ye

Noun

hoot (plural hoots)

1. A term of contempt.

Verb

hoot (third-person singular present hoots, present participle hootin, past hootit, past participle hootit)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To dismiss idly with contempt or derision; to flout; to pooh-pooh.

Derived terms

• houttie (“irritable”)

References

• “hoot” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d???/
• Rhymes: -??(r)

Etymology 1

Perhaps a corruption of cheer (“to salute with cheers”), taken in an ironical sense; or more probably from Dutch gekscheren (“to jeer”, literally “to shear the fool”), from gek (“a fool”) (see geck) + scheren (“to shear”) (see shear (verb)). Also compare German and Dutch gieren (“to laugh loudly”).

Noun

jeer (plural jeers)

1. A mocking remark or reflection.

   Synonyms: scoff, taunt, flout, jibe, mockery

   • 1711, Jonathan Swift, The Fable of Midas, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol XII, Sir Walter Scott, ed., Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824, pages 302-5,

     Midas, exposed to all their jeers, Had lost his art, and kept his ears.

Translations

Verb

jeer (third-person singular simple present jeers, present participle jeering, simple past and past participle jeered)

1. (intransitive, jeer at) To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.
2. (transitive, archaic) To mock; treat with mockery; to taunt.

   • And if we cannot jeer them, we jeer ourselves.

Synonyms

• (to utter sarcastic remarks): scoff, sneer
• (to treat with scoffs): deride, flout, gibe, mock, ridicule
• See Thesaurus:mock
• See Thesaurus:deride

Derived terms

• jeeringly

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare gear.

Noun

jeer (plural jeers)

1. (nautical) A gear; a tackle.
2. (nautical, in the plural) An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the yards of a ship.

Derived terms

• jeer capstan

Translations

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish dír (“due, fit, proper”).

Adverb

jeer

1. indeed, verily, truly, actually

Related terms

• jeeragh
• jeerid
• jeerys

Mutation

Semai

Alternative forms

• jer

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *?ur ~ *?uur ~ *?u?r ~ *?ir ~ *?i?r (“to descend”). Cognate with Central Mnong j??r, Khmu cù?r, Pear cer, Proto-Palaungic *?uur.

Verb

jeer

1. to fall

Synonyms

• tegòh
• yòòk

Derived terms

References

Somali

Pronunciation

Noun

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1. hippopotamus