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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.
hoot From the web:
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toot
English
Etymology 1
Probably onomatopoetic in origin, compare Dutch toeteren (“to blow a horn”) and German tuten (“to blow a horn”).
Alternative forms
- tout (in some verb senses only)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tu?t/
- IPA(key): /t?t/ (in sense of "rubbish, tat")
- Rhymes: -u?t
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
toot (countable and uncountable, plural toots)
- The noise of a horn or whistle.
- (by extension, informal) A fart; flatus.
- (uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
- (countable, slang) A portion of cocaine that a person snorts.
- 1981, New York Magazine (volume 14, number 35, page 30)
- So he took a toot. A couple of days later he did another, then another. Soon Harry was using more coke than he had done in his whole life.
- 1981, New York Magazine (volume 14, number 35, page 30)
- (informal) A spree of drunkness.
- (informal, uncountable, pronounced /t?t/) Rubbish; tat.
- (Internet) A message on the social networking software Mastodon.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
toot (third-person singular simple present toots, present participle tooting, simple past and past participle tooted)
- To stand out, or be prominent.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Howell to this entry?)
- To peep; to look narrowly.
- November 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, A Sermon preached at Stamford
- In the court, in the noblemen's houses, at every merchant's house, those Observants were spying, tooting, and looking, watching and prying, what they might hear or see against the see of Rome.
- November 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, A Sermon preached at Stamford
- To see; to spy.
- (slang) To flatulate.
- To make the sound of a horn or whistle.
- To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound.
- (slang) To go on a drinking binge.
- (slang) To snort (a recreational drug).
- 2008, Robert L. Glover, Street Corner Symphony: An American Story (page 65)
- I had graduated from the simple tooting cocaine up my nose to smoking it, which was a completely different experience and animal.
- 2008, Robert L. Glover, Street Corner Symphony: An American Story (page 65)
- To post a message on a Mastodon instance (a self-hosted version of the networking software).
Synonyms
- (to fart): See Thesaurus:flatulate
- (to sound a trumpet etc.): poop (obsolete)
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Perhaps a contraction of toilet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
toot (plural toots)
- (Australia, slang) A toilet.
See also
- toot plant
- toot suite
Anagrams
- Otto, Toto, otto, toto
Westrobothnian
Etymology
Cognate with Swedish tota, dial. tåta.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ù?t
Verb
toot (preterite totä)
- (with dill) To attempt; to try to imitate as best you can; mimic.
See also
- töt
References
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- what toothbrush is best
- what toothpaste is best for braces
- what toothpaste is best for whitening
- what tooth comes in first
- what toothpaste has fluoride
- what toothpaste is safe for dogs
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