different between toot vs oot

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)

1. The noise of a horn or whistle.

2. (by extension, informal) A fart; flatus.
3. (uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
4. (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.

5. (informal) A spree of drunkness.
6. (informal, uncountable, pronounced /t?t/) Rubbish; tat.

7. (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)

1. To stand out, or be prominent.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Howell to this entry?)

2. 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.
3. To see; to spy.
4. (slang) To flatulate.
5. To make the sound of a horn or whistle.
6. To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound.
7. (slang) To go on a drinking binge.
8. (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.

9. 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)

1. (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)

1. (with dill) To attempt; to try to imitate as best you can; mimic.

See also

• töt

References

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u?t

Pronoun

oot

1. (Tyneside) anything

Synonyms

• owt

Anagrams

• OTO, Oto, oto, oto-, too

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• alt (most dialects)

Etymology

From Middle High German alt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/

Adjective

oot (masculine aue, feminine au, comparative auer or äuer or älder, superlative et ootste or äutste or ältste)

1. (westernmost Ripuarian) old

Finnish

Verb

oot

1. (colloquial) second-person singular indicative present of olla

See also

• oon

Noun

oot

1. Nominative plural form of oo.

Ingrian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?t/

Verb

oot

1. second-person singular indicative present active of olla

References

• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[1]

Scots

Etymology

From Old English ?t

Adverb

oot (not comparable)

1. out

Pronoun

oot

1. (South Scots) anything

Usage notes

A hypercorrection of owt, generally used by the younger generation.

Seri

Noun

oot (plural ootolc)

1. coyote