hoot
see also: Hoot
Pronunciation
Hoot
Proper noun
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see also: Hoot
Pronunciation
- IPA: /huːt/
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.
- French: hululement, ululement
- Italian: ululo
- Russian: у́ханье
- Spanish: ululato, grito, chillo
hoot (hoots, present participle hooting; past and past participle hooted)
- To cry out or shout in contempt.
- To make the cry of an owl.
- c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene ii]:
- 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
- French: huer
- Russian: ги́кать
Hoot
Proper noun
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