
Meaning of TOOT
| Pronunciation: | | toot
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WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party
- [n] a blast of a horn
- [v] make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared"
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| | Synonyms: | | beep, bender, blare, booze-up, carousal, carouse, claxon, honk |
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| | See Also: | | go, revel, revelry, sound, sound, tootle | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Toot\, v. i. [OE. toten, AS. totian to project; hence, to
peep out.] [Written also {tout}.]
1. To stand out, or be prominent. [Obs.] --Howell.
2. To peep; to look narrowly. [Obs.] --Latimer.
For birds in bushes tooting. --Spenser.
\Toot\, v. t.
To see; to spy. [Obs.] --P. Plowman.
\Toot\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tooted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Tooting}.] [Cf. D. toeten to blow a horn, G. tuten, Sw.
tuta, Dan. tude; probably of imitative origin.]
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. ``A tooting horn.'' --Howell.
Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches.
--Thackeray.
\Toot\, 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.
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