different between outcry vs hoot

English

Etymology

From Middle English outcry, outcri, outcrye, equivalent to out- +? cry.The verb is from Middle English outcrien.

Pronunciation

Noun

• (UK, US) enPR: out?kr?, IPA^(key): /?a?tk?a?/

Verb

• (UK, US) enPR: out-kr??, IPA^(key): /a?t?k?a?/

Noun

outcry (plural outcries)

1. A loud cry or uproar.

2. (figuratively) A strong protest.
3. (India, archaic) An auction.

   to send goods to an outcry

Translations

Verb

outcry (third-person singular simple present outcries, present participle outcrying, simple past and past participle outcried)

1. (intransitive) To cry out.
   • 1919, Debates in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918: Volume 1

     I think any man who outcries against the power of the government in Germany soon ceases to cry at all, because he is crushed.

2. (transitive) To cry louder than.
   • 2003, Melvyn Bragg, Crossing the lines (page 355)

     ...outcrying the clacking of train wheels, the shrill of the whistle...

   • 2007, Anthony Dalton, Alone Against the Arctic (page 104)

     The dogs added their voices to the din, howling for hours, each trying to outcry the others.

Anagrams

• cry out

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.