different between uproar vs hoot

English

Etymology

Calque of Dutch oproer or German Aufruhr. Possibly influenced by roar.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??p???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??p????/

Noun

uproar (countable and uncountable, plural uproars)

1. Tumultuous, noisy excitement. [from 1520s]
2. Loud confused noise, especially when coming from several sources.
3. A loud protest, controversy, outrage

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:commotion

Derived terms

• uproarious
• uproarish

Translations

Verb

uproar (third-person singular simple present uproars, present participle uproaring, simple past and past participle uproared)

1. (transitive) To throw into uproar or confusion.
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3,^[1]

     […] had I power, I should

     Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,

     Uproar the universal peace, confound

     All unity on earth.

2. (intransitive) To make an uproar.
   • 1661, William Caton, The Abridgment of Eusebius Pamphilius’s Ecclesiastical History, London: Francis Holden, 1698, Part II, p. 110, note,^[2]

     […] through their Tumultuous Uproaring have they caused the peaceable and harmless to suffer […]

   • 1824, Thomas Carlyle (translator), Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, New York: A.L. Burt, 1839, Book 4, Chapter 8, pp. 210-211,^[3]

     […] the landlady entering at this very time with news that his wife had been delivered of a dead child, he yielded to the most furious ebullitions; while, in accordance with him, all howled and shrieked, and bellowed and uproared, with double vigor.

   • 1828, Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity, London: Samuel Maunder, Part II, p. 56,^[4]

     When red-mouth’d cannons to the clouds uproar,

     And gasping hosts sleep shrouded in their gore,

   • 1829, Mason Locke Weems, The Life of General Francis Marion, Philadelphia: Joseph Allen, Chapter 12, p. 106,^[5]

     Officers, as well as men, now mingle in the uproaring strife, and snatching the weapons of the slain, swell the horrid carnage.

Translations

References

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.