Synonyms for hoot
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : hoot |
| Phonetic Transcription : hut |
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Définition of hoot
Origin :- "to call or shout in disapproval or scorn," c.1600, probably related to or from huten, "to shout, call out" (c.1200), probably ultimately imitative. First used of bird cries, especially that of the owl, mid-15c. Related: Hooted; hooting. As a noun from mid-15c. Meaning "a laugh, something funny" is first recorded 1942. Slang sense of "smallest amount or particle" (The hoot you don't give when you don't care) is from 1891.
- "A dod blasted ole fool!" answered the captain, who, till now, had been merely an amused on-looker. "Ye know all this rumpus wont do nobuddy a hoot o' good--not a hoot." ["Alonge Traverse Shores," Traverse City, Michigan, 1891]
- Hooter in the same sense is from 1839.
- HOOTER. Probably a corruption of iota. Common in New York in such phrases as "I don't care a hooter for him." "This note ain't worth a hooter." [John Russell Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1877]
- verb cry
- Anyway, we can tell in a minute or two, 'cause them owls are sure to hoot again.
- Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
- But I thought that there was a hoot of laughter in the high wail of the wind.
- Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
- It was between nine and ten o'clock that Jack heard the hoot of an owl.
- Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
- Take away the castles, and not even a German would give a hoot for it.
- Extract from : « A Book of Burlesques » by H. L. Mencken
- He grinned to himself, and just then the hoot of an owl sounded.
- Extract from : « The Boy Scouts on the Trail » by George Durston
- The boys were coming home from school, and they began to hoot and laugh.
- Extract from : « The Blunders of a Bashful Man » by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
- In a minute the hoot was repeated, still with that unnatural quaver at its end.
- Extract from : « The Cave of Gold » by Everett McNeil
- It was the low howl of a wolf followed immediately by the hoot of an owl.
- Extract from : « The Wild Man of the West » by R.M. Ballantyne
- My owners have never told me to let the law go to hoot and ram her for all she's worth!
- Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day
- Consternation was excited in the traffic ahead of us by the hoot of the car.
- Extract from : « India and the Indians » by Edward F. Elwin
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