Toot
[tuːt] or [tut]
Definition
(v. i.) To stand out, or be prominent.
(v. i.) To peep; to look narrowly.
(v. t.) To see; to spy.
(v. i.) To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown.
(v. t.) To cause to sound, as a horn, the note being modified at the beginning and end as if by pronouncing the letter t; to blow; to sound.
Typist: Silvia
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Blow (as a horn), sound.
Editor: Ricky
Definition
n. (slang) an idle worthless creature: the devil.
v.i. to make short unmusical sounds on a flute or horn.—v.t. to blow as a horn &c.—n. a sound as of a horn a blast: (U.S.) a spree.—n. Toot′er one who toots or that upon which he toots.
v.i. to pry or peep about: (obs.) to be prominent.—n. Toot′er anything projecting.
Typed by Juan
Examples
- She hooted and tooted gaily, then her paddles were silent, the ropes were thrown ashore, she drifted in with a little bump. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was wonderful to see the pertinacity with which the washerwoman from Tooting brought the cart every Saturday, and her bills week after week. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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