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Definition: Toot |
TootNoun1. A blast of a horn. 2. Revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party. Verb1. Make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "toot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references) |
Synonyms: TootSynonyms: bender (n), booze-up (n), carousal (n), carouse (n), beep (v), blare (v), claxon (v), honk (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Toot |
| English words defined with "toot": Tooted, Tooting, tootle. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Toot" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Yucatec (dumb, mute, speechless). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Now if you boys will excuse us, I'm going to toot Mr. Birdman's horn (Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law; writing credit: Dave Cummings; Paul Whitehouse) Paper cut. Oh, you know how I hate to toot my own horn but now his hands are just covered in all these tiny little bandages (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Hey, I don't mind if I toot my own horn (Family Ties; writing credit: Marissa Garrido; Raimundo Lopes) Don't toot your horn honey, you're not that good (Scarface; writing credit: Oliver Stone) | |
Tongue Twisters | Ten tiny tin trains toot ten times. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Little Toot (1954) Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom (1953) Rooty Toot Toot (1951) Toot Sweet (1929) Hoot Toot (1918) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Dans safer sex il y a avant toot le mot sexe. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| Toot. | Meep meep; toot; horn; beep; . | ||
| Toot; honk; horn; tootle; tooting; honking; clown's nose. | |||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Toot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 56.67% of the time. "Toot" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 56.67% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 16.67% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "toot" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Toot | Last name | 170 | 53,788 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "toot": toot at smb.'s ear ♦ toot one's horn. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "toot": toot-sweet. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
toot | 30 |
my toot toot | 13 |
toot puddle | 12 |
little toot | 10 |
toot sweet | 10 |
don mess t toot toot | 8 |
beep beep toot toot | 7 |
boom plunk toot whistle | 6 |
beep beep lyrics toot toot | 5 |
n toot totum | 5 |
odd picture toot | 3 |
darkness fairy fall movie toot | 3 |
toot toot tootsie | 3 |
lyrics sweet toot | 3 |
boom in owl plunk professor toot whistle | 2 |
it toot up | 2 |
dont mess toot toot | 2 |
1953 boom plunk toot whistle | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "toot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | e pirë rëndshëm, bori (bugle, cornet, hooter, horn, post, trump, trumpet), bie borisë (blare, honk, tootle). (various references) | |
Arabic | نفخ في بوق (wind), زمر (horn), صفير (beep, pip, sibilance, singing, whistling), صفر في أذنه, صفر (beep, blow, cipher, hiss, hoot, naught, nil, nought, pipe, tootle, wheeze, whistle, yellow, zero), صوت بوق, بوق (blare, bugle, cornet, euphonium, honk, horn, megaphone, proboscis, sound, tootle, trump, trumpet). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | изсвирване с клаксон, избибитвам с клаксон. (various references) | |
Chinese | 嘟 (honk). (various references) | |
Czech | troubení (call, honk, hoot), zatroubit (trumpet), houkat (beep, honk), houkání (honk, hoot, hooting, whoop). (various references) | |
Danish | sne (snow). (various references) | |
Dutch | sneeuw (snow), lijntje (rope), coke (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, uptown, white girl, white lady). (various references) | |
Finnish | toitottaa (blow, hoot, toot a horn). (various references) | |
French | corner. (various references) | |
German | tuten (beep, honk, peep, poop, to toot, tootle), blasen (bladders, blisters, blow, blow on, bubble, bubbles, cystic, puff, to blow, to toot, wind). (various references) | |
Greek | κόκα (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coca bush, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, uptown, white girl, white lady), κορνάρω (blow one΄s horn, honk, honk one's horn), σαλπίζω (bugle, trumpet), βοώ (boom), χιόνι (snow), φυσώ κέρασ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לתקוע (jab, poke, stick), לצפור (hoot, pipe, whistle), שריק" (hiss, piping, whistle, whistling), צפיר" (hoot, klaxon, siren, tootle, whistle). (various references) | |
Hungarian | trombitaszó (blare, flourish, flourish of trumpets, trumpet, trumpet call), dudálás (honk). (various references) | |
Indonesian | meniup (breathe), membunyikan. (various references) | |
Italian | suonare il clacson (honk, hoot), signora (gentlewoman, lady, ma'am, madam, missis, missus, mistress, mrs, Mrs., ms, signora, tradesman, wife, woman), polvere di stelle (stardust), polver d'oro (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, uptown, white girl, white lady), neve (snow), madama (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, uptown, white girl, white lady), lei (her, herself, she, you), dama bianca (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, uptown, white girl, white lady), colpo di clacson. (various references) | |
Manx | skoll, fed (blast on whistle, swish, zip). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oottay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | trombeta (clarion, trump, trumpet), toque rápido de cláxon, sirene (buzzer, hooter, horn), neve (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, uptown, white girl, white lady), júlia (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, uptown, white girl, white lady), gulosa (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, uptown, white girl, white lady), coca (coca), buzinada, branca (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, uptown, white girl, white lady), apito (call, hoot, whistle). (various references) | |
Romanian | sunet (echo, hoot, noise, note, peal, ringing, rustle, sound, tinkle, toll), suna (beat, blare, call, call up, chime, go, hoot, jingle, resound, ring, sound, strike, tinkle), claxona (honk). (various references) | |
Russian | трубить в рог, гудок (buzzer, hooter, horn), гудеть гудок (beep, honk), звук рога. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | trubljenje (beep, hoot, tootle, trumpet), trubiti (beep, blare, blow, honk, tootle). (various references) | |
Spanish | tocar un bocinazo, tocar bocina (hoot, tootle), tocar a (bang, thump out, toll), toque de claxon, periquito (budgerigar, budgie, love bird, parakeet), bocinazo (honk, hoot), charli (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, uptown, white girl, white lady), coca (bun, Coca, coke, head, kink, Napper), dama blanca (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, uptown, white girl, white lady), faslopa (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, uptown, white girl, white lady), nieve (snow), blanca (half note, minim), perico (parakeet, Pete), pitar (beep, whistle), polvo (dust, grit, jammed, powder, screw), sonar (blare, blow, chink, clang, jangle, play, rattle, resound, ring, skirl, sonar, sound, speak, tintinnabulation), sonido breve (tootle), perica (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, uptown, white girl, white lady). (various references) | |
Swedish | tutning (hooting, Tooting), tuta (fingerstall, honk, hoot, hooter, tootle), tut (hoot). (various references) | |
Turkish | korna sesi (beep, honk, hoot, peep), korna çalmak (beep, hoot, sound the horn), boru sesi (blare, bugle call, Clarion, clarion voice, sennet, tarantara, trump), boru çalmak (pipe, poop, sound the bugle, trumpet). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стирчати (protrude), кричати (bawl, call, chirp, clamor, clamour, cry, exclaim, holler, honk, noise, shout, sing out, vociferate, yawl, yell), гульня (bat, binge, bum, carousal, debauch, fuddle, hellbender, punch, razzle, razzle-dazzle, spree, whiz, whizz), гудок (beep, buzzer, hoot, hooter, horn, siren), гудити (blame, censure, condemn, decry, reprobate, worsen). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiếng kèn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "toot": tooted, tooter, tooters, tooth, toothache, toothaches, toothbrush, toothbrushes, toothbrushing, toothbrushings, toothed, toothier, toothiest, toothily, toothing, toothless, toothlike, toothpaste, toothpastes, toothpick, toothpicks, tooths, toothsome, toothsomely, toothsomeness, toothsomenesses, toothwort, toothworts, toothy, tooting, tootle, tootled, tootler, tootlers, tootles, tootling, toots, tootses, tootsie, tootsies, tootsy. (additional references) | |
Words containing "toot": bucktooth, bucktoothed, dogtooth, eyetooth, patootie, patooties, sawtooth, snaggletooth, snaggletoothed. (additional references) | |
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"Toot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: otet, ototo, tabot, taiot, tavot, teot, thoot, thot, thout, tigot, tiof, tivot, tlot, toait, todt, toet, toit, Toity, tojo, Tomov, tomt, tont, To'o, toob, tooc, tood, tooe, toof, toog, tooh, Toom, toop, Toor, toosh, toote, tooti, tooty, tooy, tooz, topt, tosoh, tosot, Tost, to't, toti, totom, tott, towt, toyo, toyot, troot, tuit, tuoh, tuot, tuto, tutt, twot, twout, vtsoft. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "toot" (pronounced tuw"t) |
| 3 | t uw" t | astute. |
| 2 | -uw" t | acute, boot, Brut, brute, Bute, Butte, cahoot, chute, commute, compute, coot, cute, impute, dilute, dispute, disrepute, flute, fruit, hoot, jute, loot, lute, moot, mute, newt, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, reroute, root, salute, scoot, shoot, Shute, subacute, suit, uproot. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: otto. | |
| Words within the letters "o-o-t-t" | |
-1 letter: oot, too, tot. | |
-2 letters: to. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-o-t-t" | |
+1 letter: lotto, motto, ottos, potto, tooth, toots, torot. | |
+2 letters: blotto, bottom, cotton, grotto, lottos, motmot, mottos, potato, pottos, tattoo, tomato, tooted, tooter, tooths, toothy, tootle, tootsy, toroth. | |
+3 letters: arnotto, bottoms, boycott, cocotte, contort, cottons, cottony, dogtrot, foxtrot, grottos, hotfoot, hotshot, hotspot, motmots, mottoes, otocyst, otolith, ottoman, outfoot, outmost, outplot, outport, outpost, outroot, outshot, outtold, outtrot, outvote, potshot, rattoon, ridotto, risotto, rootlet, rotator, taproot, tattoos, testoon, tooters, toothed, tooting, tootled, tootler, tootles, tootses, tootsie, topcoat, topknot, topmost, tortoni, tosspot, tostado, towboat, towmont. | |
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