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

  Toot \Toot\, v. i. [OE. toten, AS. totian to project; hence, to
     peep out.] [Written also {tout}.]
     1. To stand out, or be prominent. [Obs.] --Howell.
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     2. To peep; to look narrowly. [Obs.] --Latimer.


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              For birds in bushes tooting.          --Spenser.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Toot \Toot\, v. t.
     To see; to spy. [Obs.] --P. Plowman.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Toot \Toot\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tooted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Tooting}.] [Cf. D. toeten to blow a horn, G. tuten, Sw.
     tuta, Dan. tude; probably of imitative origin.]
     To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of
     the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning
     and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a
     horn when blown. "A tooting horn." --Howell.
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           Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches.
                                                    --Thackeray.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Toot \Toot\, v. t.
     To cause to sound, as a horn, the note being modified at the
     beginning and end as if by pronouncing the letter t; to blow;
     to sound.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  toot
       n 1: a blast of a horn
       2: revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party [syn: {carouse},
           {carousal}, {bender}, {booze-up}]
       v : make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared" [syn: {honk},
            {blare}, {beep}, {claxon}]

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

  84 Moby Thesaurus words for "toot":
     advertise, announce, annunciate, bacchanal, bacchanalia,
     bacchanalian, bagpipe, bat, bay, beep, bell, bender, binge, blare,
     blast, blat, blow, blow a horn, blow the horn, bout, bray,
     broadcast, bugle, bust, carillon, carousal, carouse, celebration,
     clarion, compotation, debauch, disseminate, doodle, double-tongue,
     drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, escapade, fanfare, fife,
     fling, flourish of trumpets, flute, guzzle, honk, jag, lark, lip,
     orgy, peal, pipe, ploy, potation, proclaim, pub-crawl, publish,
     randan, randy, revel, shriek, sound, sound a tattoo, sound taps,
     spree, squeal, symposium, tantara, tantarara, taps, tarantara,
     tattoo, tear, tongue, tootle, triple-tongue, trumpet,
     trumpet blast, trumpet call, tweedle, wassail, whistle, wind,
     wind the horn, wingding
  
  

















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