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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

... a sight!" said the dyer, as soon as he had divined the meaning of the advancing tumult, "and the fools do nothing but hoot. Come along!" he added, snatching his axe from his belt, and running to join the crowd, followed by the butcher and all the rest of his companions, except Goro, who hastily retreated ...

— Romola • George Eliot

... a while, his bruised body refusing movement. A weary sailor with a bucket glared at him through dripping hair. His shout was dim under the hoot and skirl of wind: "If ye like it so well down here, then help ...

— The Valor of Cappen Varra • Poul William Anderson

... d'Elbene had celebrated mass, just as the regular preacher was about to begin his sermon, some children who were playing in the close began to hoot the 'beguinier' [a name of contempt for friars]. Some of the faithful being disturbed in their meditations, came out of the church and chastised the little Huguenots, whose parents considered themselves in consequence to have been insulted in ...

— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... of the twilight into the morning glory of the open bay, and never a savage hoot disturbed the echoes. Some of the Alaculofs had dragged a couple of canoes from beneath the trees and raced off toward the village; others had followed a coast path known only to them, while, if there were watchers by the side of that mysterious river which flowed ...

— The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy

... haunted oaks that grew thereby, Gleamed on a casement whence the pure white face Of Amy Robsart, wife of Leicester, wife Unknown of the Queen's lover, a frail bar To that proud Earl's ambition, quietly gazed And heard the night-owl hoot a dark presage Of murder through her timid shuddering heart. But of that deed Elizabeth knew nought; Nay, white as Amy Robsart in her dream Of love she listened to the sobbing lute, Bitterly happy, proudly desolate; ...

— Collected Poems - Volume One (of 2) • Alfred Noyes

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