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noun

Hoot n.

A derisive cry or shout.

The cry of an owl.

A very funny event, person, or experience; as, watching Jack try to catch that greased pig was a hoot.

Hoot owl (Zool.), the barred owl (Syrnium nebulosum). See Barred owl.

not give a hoot not care at all.

verb

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

Hoot v. i. (past & past part. hooted; pres. part. hooting)

To cry out or shout in contempt. "Matrons and girls shall hoot at thee no more."

To make the peculiar cry of an owl. "The clamorous owl that nightly hoots."

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Etymology of 'Hoot'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hoot" Quotes from Famous Books

... and enjoyed the well-earned repose with a full feeling of security. The owl softly winnowed the air with his feathery pinions as he searched for his prey along the beach, sending forth an occasional to-hoot! as he rested for a moment on the leafless branches of an old tree, reminding me to take a peep at the night, and to inquire "what its ...

— Four Months in a Sneak-Box • Nathaniel H. Bishop

... Raven's croak, the chirping of the Sparrow, The scream of Jays, the creaking of Wheelbarrow, And hoot of Owls,—all join the soul to harrow, And grate the ear. We listen to thy quaint soliloquizing, As if all creatures thou wert catechizing, Tuning their voices, and their notes revising, ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various

... at his back. It was the evening of June twenty-seventh, 1896. All about the lonely station the trees crowded down to the right of way, and rustled in a gentle evening breeze. Somewhere off in the wood, his ear discerned the faint hoot of an owl. Across the track in a pool under the shadow of the semaphore, he heard the full orchestra of the frogs, and saw reflected in the water the last exquisite glories of expiring day lamped by one bright ...

— Double Trouble - Or, Every Hero His Own Villain • Herbert Quick

... guid troth, 'am sairly puzzled there; hoot, no, sir; de'il a thing almost he kens about the kitchen gerden—a' his strength lies among the ...

— Willy Reilly - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton

... the company; the police insisted that the booth or hotel lobby in which they performed should be fireproof; the wife of the mining engineer fell in love with the barytone, and her husband hired a number of hoodlums to take their places in the gallery and hoot and hiss when the time came. And those who nag under any circumstances requested more cheerfulness. They found the "Czar and Zimmermann" too dull, the "Muette de Portici" too hackneyed. They insisted on "Madame Angot" and "Orpheus in ...

— The Goose Man • Jacob Wassermann

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