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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hoot" Quotes from Famous Books

... is favourable, let Moonlight sound the chirping of a bird, and Rushing River will enter the camp without weapons, and trust himself to the man who was once his foe. If the answer is unfavourable, let her hoot like the owl three times, and Rushing River will go back to the home of his fathers, and see the pleasant ...

— The Prairie Chief • R.M. Ballantyne

... remember their cries as vividly as if I had heard them again this morning. While feeding, or quietly enjoying the morning sun, the gray gibbon (Hylobates concolor) emits in leisurely succession a low staccato, whistle-like cry, like "Hoot! Hoot! Hoot!" which one can easily counterfeit by whistling. This is varied by another whistle cry of three notes, thus: "Who-ee-hoo! Who-ee-hoo!" also to be duplicated by whistling. In hunting for ...

— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday

... roses and raspberries growing side by side. The breaths of thyme and balm, lavender and myrtle, were always in that parlour. You know the sheep-fold and the paddock, the old tree over the west gable where the owl made his nest—the owl that used to come and sit on our school-room windowsill and hoot at night. You know, the sun-dial where the screaming peacock used to perch and spread his tail; the dove-cote, where the silver-necks and fan-tails used to coo and ruffle their feathers. You know, too, all the quaint plannings and accidents of the old house; ...

— The Late Miss Hollingford • Rosa Mulholland

... over a question of business policy. Walter's taking over all our interests on Roaring Lake. He appears to be going to peel off his coat and become personally active in the logging industry. Funny streak for Monohan to take, isn't it? He never seemed to care a hoot about the working end of the business, so ...

— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... heels, With outstretched chin and crouching pace, the client Marcus steals, His loins girt up to run with speed, be the errand what it may, And the smile flickering on his cheek, for aught his lord may say. Such varlets pimp and jest for hire among the lying Greeks: Such varlets still are paid to hoot when brave Licinius speaks. Where'er ye shed the honey, the buzzing flies will crowd; Where'er ye fling the carrion, the raven's croak is loud; Where'er down Tiber garbage floats, the greedy pike ye see; And wheresoe'er such lord is found, ...

— Lays of Ancient Rome • Thomas Babington Macaulay

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