Hoot

Definition: Hoot

Hoot

Noun

1. A loud raucous cry as of an awl.

2. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.

3. Something of little value; "it is not worth a damn"; "not worth shucks".

Verb

1. To utter a loud clamorous shout: "the toughs and blades of the city hoot and bang their drums, drink arak, play dice, and dance.".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hoot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Synonyms: Hoot

Contempt

Point the finger of scorn, hold up to scorn, laugh to scorn; scout, hoot, flout, hiss, scoff at.

Deception

Snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin; springe, springle; noose, hoot; bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens; cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime; dionaea, Venus's flytrap; ambush; trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom; spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery; mine; flytrap; green goods; panel house.

Disapprobation

Decry; cry down, run down, frown down; clamor, hiss, hoot, mob, ostracize, blacklist; draw up a round robin, sign a round robin.

Disrespect

Hiss, hoot, boo, gibe, flout, jeer, scoff, gleek, taunt, sneer, quip, fling, wipe, slap in the face.

Have in derision; hold in derision; deride, scoff, barrack, sneer, laugh at, ridicule, gibe, mock, jeer, hiss, hoot, taunt, twit, niggle, gleek, gird, flout, fleer; roast, turn into ridicule; burlesque; laugh to scorn; (contempt); smoke; fool; make game of, make a fool of, make an April fool of; play a practical joke; lead one a dance, run the rig upon, have a fling at, scout; mob.

Crosswords: Hoot

Maybe play a couple of Tennessee Ernie Ford records, that'd be a hoot. (Good Morning, Vietnam; writing credit: Mitch Markowitz)

They sound like a hoot. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage; and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Nature doesn't give a hoot. (Grande illusion, La; writing credit: Jean Renoir; Charles Spaak)

It's always a hoot, and we don't all die from it. (Firefly; writing credit: John Sullivan)

By Hoot or by Crook (1974)

Hootenanny Hoot (1963)

Hoot Mon (1922)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Fifty Years on the Owl Hoot Trail (reference)

• Hoot (reference)

• Little Hoot (reference)

• Too Hot to Hoot : Funny Palindrome Riddles (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Sesame Street - Sing, Hoot & Howl with the Sesame Street Animals (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Tree-Side Hoot [LIVE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Hoot mon, the kilties are here! British recruiting week July 16-21. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "hoot": give a hoot ♦ hoot at ♦ hoot at smb. ♦ hoot away ♦ hoot down ♦ hoot off ♦ hoot out ♦ Hoot Owl ♦ i don't care a hoot ♦ i don't give a hoot ♦ i don't give a hoot about it ♦ not give a hoot ♦ owl's hoot. Additional references.

Beginning with "hoot": hoot-n-holler.

Ending with "hoot": grunt-hoot, owl-hoot, pant-hoot, parrot-hoot, Rent-a-hoot.

Albanian

vërshëllimë (catcall, fizzle, sing, singing), vërshëllej (give a whistle), ulërimë e sirenës, potere (ado, bedlam, carrying-on, clutter, din, fracas, fray, hoopla, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, hurly burly, jangle, noise, pandemonium, pother, racket, rowdyism, rumpus, shindy, smash, uproar), lëshoj britma mospëlqimi, këlthet (squawk), grimë (bit, dash, doit, drachm, dram, drop, fleck, hint, jiff, jiffy, jot, lick, mite, rag, suspicion, tittle, touch, whit), gjë qesharake, fishkëllen, e rënë e borisë, dëboj (banish, cast out, deport, evict, excommunicate, exile, expel, laugh off, proscribe, rase, raze, rout, send off, send packing, throw out), britmë kukuvajke, britma mospëlqimi, bie (abate, attach, attack, bang out, bite, blow over, break down, bring, burn down, chime, come a cropper, come down, crash, crash down, crumple, cut, decline, descend, devolve, drop, fall, fall off, fall on, finger, flake off, flop, give, go, go down, pitch, play, plunge, plunk, recede, sink, strike, subside, throw down, tumble), çikë (atom, bit, doit, drachm, dram, dribblet, drop, jot, near, scrap, tithe, tittle, whit). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نعيب البوم, ‏نادى بسخرية (shout), ‏ققاه, ‏قاطع بصيحات, ‏صياح البوم (screech owl), ‏صياح (brash, crying, ranting, screaming, screech, shouting, shrieking, vociferous, whooping, yelling), ‏صفر (beep, blow, cipher, hiss, naught, nil, nought, pipe, toot, tootle, wheeze, whistle, yellow, zero), ‏صغر (belittle, dwarf, lessen, shrink, smallness), ‏صاح (bawl, call, call out, clear, crow, cry, holler, scream, shout, sing out, squall, squawk, squeal, vociferate), ‏إستهزاء (mockery, raspberry). (various references)

Bulgarian 

силен смях (convulsions, hoots of laughter), рева (bark, bellow, blubber, cry, heehaw, pipe, roar, squall, trumpet, yell), рев (bawl, bluster, cry, howl, rave, roan, roar, roaring, squall, trumpet, yell), фуча (scream, sough, spit, whiz, whizz), крясък (clamor, clamour, cry, honk, scream, shriek, squawk, whoop, yell), крещя (bawl, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shriek, squall, vociferate, yell), викам 'у-у-у', освирквам (catcall, groan, hiss, razz), бухане, бухам (belabor, belabour, curry, paddle), присмех (derision, fling, jeer, laugh, mockery, ridicule, rub, scoff, scorn, taunt), дюдюкане (boo, raspberry, razz). (various references)

Chinese 

鳴叫 (animal call), 汽车喇叭声 (honk), 叫囂 . (various references)

Czech

hulákat (bawl, bellow, howl, vociferate), huèení (burr, hum, whir, whirr), houkání (honk, hooting, toot, whoop), vypískat (boo), troubit (beep, blare, honk), troubení (call, honk, toot), sténaní, pískat (hiss, tootle, whistle), kvílení (howl, howling, wail). (various references)

Danish

shout down (hoot-n-holler, shout down). (various references)

Dutch

najouwen (hoot after), interfoon (hoot-n-holler, intercom, intercom system, intercommunicating system, intercommunication system, interphone, shout down, talk-back circuit, two-way loud speaker). (various references)

Esperanto

postkrii moke (hoot after). (various references)

Farsi 

فریادزدن (Bawl, Cry, Howl, Shout, Yell), فریاداعتراض وبی صبری مثل عجب وواه , هوکردن (Boo, Booh, Jeer), صدای جغد, جیغ کشیدن (Screech, Shrill, Zing), بوق زدن . (various references)

Finnish

ulvonta (howl), toitottaa (blow, toot a horn), pilkkahuuto (jeer, sneer), ivahuuto (jeer). (various references)

French

hululer, hululement, huer, huée, siffler, petite quantité, esclaffer, corner (honk, horn), conspuer. (various references)

German

johlen (howl, jeer, to hoot), hupen (beep, honk, poop, sound the horn, to hoot, toot). (various references)

Greek 

σκούξιμο (screaming), σκούζω (screak, scream, screech, shriek, squawk, yell), συρίζω (fizzle, pipe, siss, zip), σφύριγμα (catcall, hiss, whistle, whistling), γιουχαΰζω (boo, jeer, shout down), αποδοκιμάζω (boo, deprecate, disapprove, disapprove of, discountenance, disfavor, disfavour, hiss, reprehend, reprobate, take a dim view), αποδοκιμασία (catcall, disapprobation, disapproval, disapproval of, discountenance, reprobation). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשרוק (blow, hiss, pipe, sing, whistle), לקרוא קריאת �'� אי, לצפור (pipe, toot, whistle), שריקת �"י� שוף, צפיר�" (klaxon, siren, toot, tootle, whistle). (various references)

Hungarian

huhogás (tu-whit, tu-whoo, ululation). (various references)

Indonesian

teriakan (bawling, cry, screaming, yell), mengejek (deride, mock, mocking, ridicule), berteriak (bawl, boohoo, scream, yell). (various references)

Italian

urlare (bawl, boom, cry, howl, roar, scream, shout, vociferate, yell). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

野次る (to boo, to catcall, to heckle, to hoot, to jeer), 弥次る (to heckle, to hoot, to jeer). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

やじる (to boo, to catcall, to heckle, to hoot, to jeer). (various references)

Manx

screeaghey (scream, screeching, shriek, shrieking, squall, ululate, yell, yelping), screeagh (scream, shriek, squall, yell, yelp), plou. (various references)

Norwegian

uling, ule (howl), tuting, tute (honk). (various references)

Pig Latin

oothay.(various references)

Portuguese

vaiar (boo, whoop), vaia, tocar (accomplish, achieve, dab, drive on, feel, finger, get, honk, impel, jingle, lay hands on, play, reach, shoo, skirl, sound, to touch, touch), silvo (cantation, fizz, fizzle, hiss, ping, piping, whistle, zip), pio de coruja, piar (cheep, chirp, get up the better, peek, peep, pip, pule, screech, tu-whoo, twitter), grito (bawl, call, cry, crying, scream, shout, whoop, yell), gritar (bawl, call, call out, clamor, clamour, cry, cry out, howl, scream, shout, sing out, vociferate, waul, whoop, yawl, yell), assobiar (barrack, catcall, hiss, pipe, whistle), apupar (barrack, whoop), apito (call, toot, whistle). (various references)

Romanian

huiduialã (booing, hiss, hooting, howl), huidui (barrack, boo, catcall, hiss, shout at), urmãri sau a primi cu huiduieli, urla (bluster, call, cry, howl, rage, rave, roar, set up a howl, squall, wail, yell, yowl), sunet (echo, noise, note, peal, ringing, rustle, sound, tinkle, toll, toot), suna (beat, blare, call, call up, chime, go, jingle, resound, ring, sound, strike, tinkle, toot), strigãt (bawl, call, calling, cry, ejaculation, halloo, hoop, hue, outcry, roar, roaring, scream, shout, shriek, squall, yell), muget (bellow, bellowing, bluster, howl, low, moo, roar), face de ruşine în public, ţipãt (cry, outcry, roar, scream, screech, shout, shriek, squawk, yell), ţipa (bawl, call, cry, honk, hoop, pipe, roar, scream, screech, shout, shriek, squall, squeal, yell). (various references)

Russian 

кричать (clamor, clamour, cry, holler, hollo, holloa, make a noise, outcry, shout, shouted, shouts, sing out, vociferate, waul, yell, yell off), крик совы, гудок автомобиля, гудеть;ухать гудок;крик, гудеть (beep, boom, din, ping, tooted). (various references)

Scottish

thud (an interjection of dislike or impatience: Scottish hoot). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trubljenje (beep, toot, tootle, trumpet), krik sove, izviždati (boo, hiss, hoot down), bukati. (various references)

Spanish

ulular (howl, ululate). (various references)

Swedish

tuta (fingerstall, honk, hooter, toot, tootle). (various references)

Thai

ทำเสียงร้องหวู�". (various references)

Turkish

yuhalamak (blow a raspberry, boo, catcall, give a raspberry, give smb. the bird, hiss, hoot down, hoot off, hoot out, jeer, jeer at, shout smb. down), yuhalama (boo, bronx cheer, catcall, jeering, rogh music), yuh (boo, fie upon you), siren (hooter, siren), korna sesi (beep, honk, peep, toot), korna çalmak (beep, sound the horn, toot), düdük sesi (beep, whistle), baykuş sesi (tu-whitt, tu-whoo), bağırmak (bark, bark at, bawl, bell, bellow, call, cry, ejaculate, exclaim, holler, hollo, holloa, hoop, howl, roar, scream, shout, shout at, shout out, sing out, troat, trumpet, whoop, yell), ötmek (caw, coo, crow, honk, hoop, jug, sing, sing out, warble, whistle), çalmak (abstract, adopt, bag, beat, beat out, blow, chime, cop, crib, defalcate, filch, finger, grind, grind out, heist, hijack, hoist, hook, incline, jangle, jingle, knelt, knock, knock off, lift, make off with, mooch, nobble, peal, pilfer, pinch, play, plunder, rap, render, ring, rustle, scrounge, sneak, snitch, sound, steal, strike, swipe, tend, thieve, toll, twang, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip). (various references)

Turkmen 

tarlamak (honk), юuwlamak (buzz, honk). (various references)

Ukrainian

ухати, улюлюкати, улюлюкання, крик сови, гудіти (beep, boom, buzz, zoom), гудок (beep, buzzer, hooter, horn, siren, toot). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiếng cú kêu tiếng thét, cóc cần không đáng một trinh. (various references)

Welsh

hwtio (hiss). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "hoot": hootch, hootches, hooted, hootenannies, hootenanny, hooter, hooters, hootier, hootiest, hooting, hoots, hooty. (additional references)

Words ending with "hoot": bhoot, bumbershoot, cahoot, crapshoot, offshoot, outshoot, overshoot, reshoot, shoot, troubleshoot, undershoot, upshoot. (additional references)

Words containing "hoot": bhoots, bumbershoots, cahoots, crapshooter, crapshooters, crapshoots, dhooti, dhootie, dhooties, dhootis, offshoots, outshooting, outshoots, overshooting, overshoots, peashooter, peashooters, reshooting, reshoots, sharpshooter, sharpshooters, sharpshooting, sharpshootings, shooter, shooters, shooting, shootings, shootout, shootouts, shoots, snapshooter, snapshooters, trapshooter, trapshooters, trapshooting, trapshootings, troubleshooter, troubleshooters, troubleshooting, troubleshoots, undershooting, undershoots, upshooting, upshoots. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hoot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahoot, choot, Choto, fhout, haot, haote, havot, heot, hesot, hiort, hito, Hivolt, Hjort, hlot, hnot, hoat, hoco, hoct, hoet, hoho, hoht, hojo, honot, hooft, Hoog, hooh, Hool, hoon, hooo, hoooo, hoor, hoorty, hoosh, hoost, hoota, hooty, hoov, hopt, hort, hota, Hoti, hout, houte, hoyo, Htoo, Huit, huot, hutt, huty, Huyot, mhot, ohit, ohto, thoot. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hot, oho, ooh, oot, tho, too.

-2 letters: ho, oh, to.

+1 letter: bhoot, booth, hoots, hooty, ortho, photo, shoot, sooth, thoro, tooth.

+2 letters: bhoots, booths, cahoot, cohort, cohost, coolth, dhooti, hootch, hooted, hooter, hotbox, hotdog, hotrod, oolith, photog, photon, photos, shoots, smooth, soothe, sooths, tholoi, tholos, thoron, tooths, toothy, toroth.

+3 letters: agoroth, bowshot, cahoots, cheroot, cohorts, cohosts, coolths, dhootie, dhootis, holdout, hooklet, hooters, hootier, hooting, hoptoad, hornito, hotdogs, hotfoot, hotrods, hotshot, hotspot, ooliths, oophyte, ootheca, otolith, outecho, outhowl, outshot, overhot, photoed, photogs, photons, pooftah, pothole, pothook, potshot, reshoot, sheroot, shooter, smooths, smoothy, soothed, soother, soothes, soothly, theolog, theorbo, thorons, toehold, toeshoe, toothed, torchon, toyshop, typhoon, upshoot, woolhat.