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Toot   /tut/   Listen
verb
Toot  v. t.  To see; to spy. (Obs.)


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.


Toot  v. i.  (Written also tout)  
1.
To stand out, or be prominent. (Obs.)
2.
To peep; to look narrowly. (Obs.) "For birds in bushes tooting."


Toot  v. i.  (past & past part. tooted; pres. part. tooting)  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." "Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches."





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"Toot" Quotes from Famous Books



... spilled from his trembling hand.) Hoot toot, woman! ye're, ye're—(Angrily) Ye auld beldame, to say such things to me! I'll have ye first whippet and syne droont for a witch. Damn thae stubborn and supersteetious cattle! (To SANDEMAN) We should have come in here before him and listened ...
— The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays • Various
... the very distant toot of an auto-horn breaks in upon her words, producing, in proportion to its growing nearness, an increasing pitch of excitement and indignation. GRACE flies to the door and looks out. MRS. PHILLIMORE, helpless, does not know what to do ...
— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea • Langdon Mitchell
... nine o'clock on the Sabbath morning the Puritan colonists assembled for the first public service of the holy day; they were gathered together by various warning sounds. The Haverhill settlers listened for the ringing toot of Abraham Tyler's horn. The Montague and South Hadley people were notified that the hour of assembling had arrived by the loud blowing of a conch-shell. John Lane, a resident of the latter town, was engaged in 1750 to "blow the Cunk" on the Sabbath ...
— Sabbath in Puritan New England • Alice Morse Earle
... up a deck of cards, and we play casino. After five days and nights of my sheep-camp it was like a toot on Broadway. When I caught big casino I felt as excited as if I had made a million in Trinity. And when H. O. loosened up a little and told the story about the lady in the Pullman car I laughed for ...
— Options • O. Henry
... of the little Rio Escondido. Three miles up this we crept, feeling for the shallow channel between the low banks that were crowded to the edge with gigantic trees and riotous vegetation. Then our whistle gave a little toot, and in five minutes we heard a shout, and Carlos—my brave Carlos Quintana—crashed through the tangled vines waving his cap madly ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry


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