different between money vs hoot

English

Alternative forms

• monie (archaic)
• mony (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English money, moneie, moneye, borrowed from Old French moneie (“money”), from Latin mon?ta (“money, a place for coining money, coin, mint”), from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was. Displaced native Middle English schat (“money, treasure”) (from Old English s?eatt (“money, treasure, coin”)), Middle English feoh (“money, property”) (from Old English feoh (“money, property, cattle”), whence English fee). Doublet of mint, ultimately from the same Latin word but through Germanic and Old English, and of manat, through Russian and Azeri or Turkmen.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?ni/, [?m?ni]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?ni/
• Rhymes: -?ni
• Hyphenation: mon?ey

Noun

money (usually uncountable, plural monies or moneys) (plural used only in certain senses)

1. A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
2. A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.

3. A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).

4. Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
5. The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
6. Wealth; a person, family or class that possesses wealth

7. An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
8. A person who funds an operation.

Synonyms

• beer tickets, bread, bucks, cake, cash, cheddar, coin, cream, currency, dinars, dosh, dough, ducats, folding stuff, funds, geld, gelt, greenbacks, jack, legal tender, lolly, means, moolah, lucre, paper, pennies, readies, sheets, shrapnel, simoleons, spends, spondulicks, sterling, wonga
• (generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value):
• (currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value):
• (hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins):
• See also Thesaurus:money

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• mint

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: moni

Translations

Further reading

• money in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• money in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• money at OneLook Dictionary Search

References

• money on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• myeon, yenom

Middle English

Alternative forms

• moneie, moneye, monye, monaye, monee, moonay, mone, monnoye, monoye, monnoy, monny, mony, monney, monay, monoie, monie

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French moneie, from Latin mon?ta; doublet of mynt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu?n?i?(?)/, /?mun?i?(?)/

Noun

money (uncountable)

1. money, currency
2. coinage, coin
3. wealth, fortune
4. bribe (immoral earnings)

Derived terms

• moneyles
• moneyour
• moneyen
• money-worthe
• monymaker

Descendants

• English: money
• Scots: money
• Yola: monie

References

• “monei(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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.