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hoot
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)
- A derisive cry or shout.
- The cry of an owl.
- (US, slang) A fun event or person. (See hootenanny)
- 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)
- To cry out or shout in contempt.
- To make the cry of an owl, a hoo.
- The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders / At our quaint spirits.
- To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
- To sound the horn of a vehicle
Translations
See also
- hooter
- hootenanny
- give a hoot
Anagrams
- Htoo, OTOH, otoh, thoo, toho
Finnish
Noun
hoot
- Nominative plural form of hoo.
Anagrams
- Ohto, ohto, toho
Middle English
Adjective
hoot
- hot
Descendants
- English: hot
Scots
Alternative forms
- hout, hut, hute, howt, het
Etymology
Imitative. Compare English tut, Scottish Gaelic och.
Interjection
hoot
- Precedes a disagreeing or contradictory statement.
- 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)
- A term of contempt.
Verb
hoot (third-person singular present hoots, present participle hootin, past hootit, past participle hootit)
- (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.
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raspberry
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: räz'br?, IPA(key): /????zb?i/
- (US) enPR: r?z'b?"r?, IPA(key): /??æz?b??i/
Etymology 1
From earlier raspis berry, possibly from raspise (a sweet rose-colored wine), from Anglo-Latin vinum raspeys, of uncertain origin. Possibly related to rasp (“coarse, rough”), of Germanic origin.
Noun
raspberry (plural raspberries)
- The plant Rubus idaeus.
- Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus.
- The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.
- A red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.
Synonyms
- (obsolete) hindberry, raspis
Meronyms
- (aggregate fruit): drupelet
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ????? (razuber?)
Translations
Adjective
raspberry (not comparable)
- Containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.
- Of a dark pinkish red.
- She wore a raspberry beret — lyrics of Raspberry Beret, by the musician Prince
Translations
Verb
raspberry (third-person singular simple present raspberries, present participle raspberrying, simple past and past participle raspberried)
- To gather or forage for raspberries.
- 1903, M. E. Waller, A Daughter of the Rich, Little, Brown, and Company (1903), page 137:
- […] she stuck burrs in my bed and lead me through the nettle-patch when we were raspberrying, because she knew I did n't know nettles; […]
- 1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams, Chapter 37:
- "Owen and she went raspberrying in the woods back of her farm," answered Anne. "They won't be back before supper time—if then."
- 1944, Cornelius Weygandt, The Heart of New Hampshire: Things Held Dear by Folks of the Old Stocks, G. P. Putnam's Sons (1944), page 129:
- […] Mrs. Thrifty was picking pie cherries, two boys were raspberrying, and the fourth son, as I recall it, blueberrying.
- 1976, Emily Ward, The Way Things Were: An Autobiography of Emily Ward, Newport Press (1976), page 4:
- My mother told my sister Sally and me that if we were good little girls we might go raspberrying up on the mountains when the raspberries were ripe.
- 1988, Charles McCarry, The Bride of the Wilderness, MysteriousPress.com (2011), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:
- In strawberry time she had seen individual bears grazing in the meadows along the bluff, and later, while raspberrying, she heard one gobbling fruit and snorting on the other side of the bush.
- 1903, M. E. Waller, A Daughter of the Rich, Little, Brown, and Company (1903), page 137:
See also
- (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
- boysenberry
- loganberry
- salmonberry
- tayberry
- thimbleberry
- whitebark raspberry
References
Etymology 2
Cockney rhyming slang, respectively from raspberry tart = fart (though "raspberry" is rarely used for a fart, merely a noise which imitates it), and raspberry ripple = cripple.
Noun
raspberry (plural raspberries)
- (colloquial) A noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin, used humorously or to express derision.
- Synonyms: (US) Bronx cheer, razz
- (derogatory, colloquial) A cripple.
Derived terms
- blow a raspberry
Translations
Verb
raspberry (third-person singular simple present raspberries, present participle raspberrying, simple past and past participle raspberried)
- (colloquial) To make the noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence.
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