Hoot

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hoot \Hoot\, v. t.
     To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with
     derisive shouts.
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           Partridge and his clan may hoot me for a cheat.


                                                    --Swift.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hoot \Hoot\, n.
     1. A derisive cry or shout. --Glanvill.
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     2. The cry of an owl.
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     3. A very funny event, person, or experience; as, watching
        Jack try to catch that greased pig was a hoot.
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     {Hoot owl} (Zool.), the barred owl ({Syrnium nebulosum}). See
        {Barred owl}.
  
     {not give a hoot} not care at all.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hoot \Hoot\ (h[=oo]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Hooted}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Hooting}.] [OE. hoten, houten, huten; cf. OSw. huta,
     Sw. huta ut to take one up sharply, fr. Sw. hut interj.,
     begone! cf. also W. hwt off! off with it! away! hoot!]
     1. To cry out or shout in contempt.
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              Matrons and girls shall hoot at thee no more.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     2. To make the peculiar cry of an owl.
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              The clamorous owl that nightly hoots. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hoot
       n 1: a loud raucous cry (as of an owl)
       2: a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt [syn:
           {boo}, {Bronx cheer}, {hiss}, {raspberry}, {razzing}, {snort},
           {bird}]
       3: something of little value; "his promise is not worth a
          damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks" [syn:
          {damn}, {darn}, {red cent}, {shit}, {shucks}, {tinker's
          damn}, {tinker's dam}]
       v : to utter a loud clamorous shout; "the toughs and blades of
           the city hoot and bang their drums, drink arak, play
           dice, and dance"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  145 Moby Thesaurus words for "hoot":
     Bronx, Bronx cheer, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot,
     bagatelle, bark, battle cry, bauble, bawl, bean, bellow, bibelot,
     bird, bit, boo, booing, brass farthing, button, cackle, call,
     carol, catcall, caterwaul, caw, cent, chatter, cheep, cheer, chirk,
     chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chuck, clack, cluck,
     cock-a-doodle-doo, coo, croak, cronk, crow, cry, cuckoo, curio,
     drum, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, folderol, fribble,
     frippery, gabble, gaggle, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, give the bird,
     give the raspberry, gobble, guggle, hail, hair, halfpenny, halloo,
     hill of beans, hiss, hissing, holler, hollo, honk, hoo, howl,
     hurrah, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, minikin,
     mockery, molehill, peep, peppercorn, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff,
     pinprick, pip, pipe, quack, rallying cry, rap, raspberry, razz,
     red cent, roar, roll, row of pins, rush, scold, scream, screech,
     shit, shout, shriek, sing, snap, sneeshing, sou, squall, squawk,
     squeal, straw, the bird, toy, trifle, trill, trinket, triviality,
     tuppence, tweet, twit, twitter, two cents, twopence, war cry,
     war whoop, warble, whim-wham, whistle, whistle at, whoop, yammer,
     yap, yawl, yawp, yell, yelp, yo-ho, yowl