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▪ I. hoot, int. Sc. and north. dial.|huːt|
Also hout |haʊt|, hut |hʌt|.
[App. a natural utterance of objection or repulsion, there being parallel forms in many langs.: e.g. Sw. hut begone, used in taking one up sharply, Welsh hwt off! away!, Irish ut out! pshaw!, Gael. ut! ut! interj. of disapprobation or dislike. Possibly connected in origin with hoot v.]
An ejaculation expressing dissatisfaction with, or impatient and somewhat contemptuous dismissal of, a statement or notion: nearly synonymous with tut!, with which also it appears to be combined in the more emphatic hoot toot (hout tout, hut tut).
1681Otway Souldiers Fort. i. i, Hout ye Caterpillars, ye Locusts of the Nation. 1762Foote Orator ii. Wks. 1799 I. 216 Hut, hut, not spake, what should ail me? 1795Macneill Will & Jean 1, (‘Wha can this new comer be?’) ‘Hoot!’ quo' Tam, ‘there's drouth in thinking—Let's in, Will, and syne we'll see’. 1815Scott Guy M. xxiii, Hout tout, man! I would never be making a hum-dudgeon about a scart on the pow. 1825–80Jamieson, Hoot, hout, howts,..equivalent to Eng. fy. Hoot-toot, of the same meaning, but stronger, and expressing greater dissatisfaction, contempt, or disbelief. 1879L. B. Walford Cousins x. 133 ‘Hut, Emily! who said you were a tyrant?’ 1883Mrs. Oliphant Ladies Lindores II. 130 ‘Hoot, mem, we'll just manage fine’. 1893Northumbld. Gloss., Hoot! hoots! howt! hout! hut! huts! an expression of impatience. Sometimes hoot-toot, or otherwise varied.
So hoots (houts, huts), int. [with advb. -s.]
1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl., Howts, huts..as ‘howts—nonsense’; ‘howts—ay’. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 240 Hoots! You're no serious in sayin you're gaun to smoke already. 1832W. Stephenson Gateshead Local Poems 59 One with feelings cried, ‘Hoots, hoots, Let's roll him up in wool’. 1871C. Gibbon Lack of Gold v, Hoots, not so bad as that. 1893[see above].
▪ II. hoot, v.|huːt|
Forms: 3 huten, (4 huit), 4–5 houte(n, howte(n, hot(en, 6–7 howt, hout, 7– hoot, (7–9 whoot).
[ME. hūten is found c 1200: perh. echoic, representing an inarticulate sound like the hooting of owls or the ‘toot’ of a horn or pipe, of which the characteristic vowel is u (being that heard at the greatest distance, whence its use in distant calls, as hoo! hoo!, cooee, etc.). Cf. Swedish huta ut ‘to take one up sharply’, MHG. hiuzen, húzen to call to the pursuit; also Da. huie to shout, cry, halloo, Fr. huer to hoot, and the exclamations mentioned under hoot int. But the phonology presents difficulties: beside hūten, ME. had hōten, north. and Sc. huit, hute: perhaps a different word. ME. hūten regularly gave later hout, howt, down to 17th c., when its place appears to have been taken by hoot, which might either be the descendant of OE. hōten, or an alteration of hout under the influence of the natural sounds (cf. cuckoo). The late spelling whoot was due to the influence of who, whom, whose.]
1. a. intr. To shout, call out, make an inarticulate vocal noise; to toot with a horn; now, esp., to utter loud sounds of disapproval or obloquy.
a1225[see hooting vbl. n.]. c1350Will. Palerne 2387 Þei..went after þe werwolf..hotend out wiþ hornes. c1380Sir Ferumb. 3225 Þanne by-gunne þay to grede & houte. c1440Promp. Parv. 251/2 Howtyn, or cryyn, boo. Ibid., Howtyn, or cryen as shepmenn,..celeumo. c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 182 Upon my spere, A gerle I bere, I dare welle swere Lett moderes howte. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. i. ii. 245 And still as hee refus'd it, the rabblement howted, and clapp'd their chopt hands. 1610Rowlands Martin Mark-all 35 At this newes the whole fraternity of Vagabonds whooted for ioy. 1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 19 Recusants..frequently passed through the Churches in time of Divine Service houting and ho-lo-ing. 1666Wood Life (O.H.S.) II. 76 They houted and hum'd all the way from the Scooles to Xt. Ch. 1711Addison Spect. No. 131 ⁋7, I do not hoot and hollow and make a Noise. Mod. The crowd began to hoot.
b. To call out or shout opprobriously at († on) or after any one. (With indirect passive.)
a1300Cursor M. 15833 Þai huited on him viliker þan he had ben a hund. 1565T. Stapleton Fortr. Faith 118 What is more houted at, scoffed and scorned in Englande now. 1592Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 28 b, Young children howted at her as a strumpet. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. v. iii. 116 [It] should be hooted at Like an old Tale. 1624Gee Foot out of Snare v. 27 All who meet with their modern books, may hoot at them. 1741Richardson Pamela I. 67, I cannot wear those good things without being whooted at. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 78 A troop of strange children ran at his heels, hooting after him.
c. To laugh. colloq.
1926T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (1935) x. cxxii. 659 At this onslaught I cackled out like a chicken, with the wild laughter of strain... I hooted out again. 1928S. Vines Humours Unreconciled xv. 201 The first time I came across it, ‘Shakespeare has no bloody relation with Schiller’, I just hooted. 1959N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 168 The others hoot, they giggle, they are weak from the combination of their own remarks and the action of the plot. 1969New Yorker 28 June 37/2 She'd mention him tragically, then hoot with laughter.
2. a. trans. To assail with shouts or sounds of disapproval, contempt, or derision.
c1200Ormin 2034 Ȝiff mann wollde tælenn þatt, & hutenn hire & þutenn. Ibid. 4875 Whærse icc amm bitwenenn menn Icc hutedd amm & þutedd. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. ii. 218 He was nawhere welcome..Ouer al yhowted and yhote trusse. 1508Dunbar Tua mariit Wemen 465 Fy on hir!.. Hutit be the halok. 1611B. Jonson Catiline iii. ii, The Owle of Rome, whom boyes and girles will hout! 1728Young Love Fame ii. (1757) 90 Tho' hiss'd and whooted by the pointing crowd. 1740C. Pitt Virg., æneid xii. (R.), How will the Latians hoot their hero's flight! 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 132 They will not listen to him, but laugh at him, and hoot him.
b. To drive (a person) out, away, or in any direction, (a play) off or from (the stage), by shouts and sounds of disapproval.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. iii. 228 He was..Ouer-al houted out and yhote trusse. 1624Fletcher Rule a Wife i. i, I would give the Boys leave to whoot me out o' th' Parish. 1683Kennett tr. Erasm. on Folly 29 [He] could never recover himself but was houted and hissed home again. 1712Steele Spect. No. 443 ⁋7 There is neither Mirth nor Good-humour in hooting a young Fellow out of Countenance. 1843Macaulay Ess., Mad. D'Arblay (1887) 743 His play had not been hooted from the boards. 189519th Cent. Aug. 327 They can tell the public that work which they elect to hoot off the stage is first rate in quality.
3. a. intr. Applied to the cry of some birds, spec. of the owl.
a1500Cuckow & Night. 185 Thou shalt be as other that been forsake, And than thou shalt hoten as do I [the Cuckoo]. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. i. iii. 28 The Bird of Night did sit..vpon the Market place, Howting, and shreeking. 1618Wither Motto, Nec Careo Wks. (1633) 531 No more..Then doth the Moone [fear] when dogs and birds of night Doe barking stand or whooting at her light. 1750G. Hughes Barbadoes 153 Even doves..will not whoot, if deprived of these and bird-pepper. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. (1859) 131 The owl [shall] hoot from the shattered tower.
b. trans. To utter or express by hooting.
a1687Cotton Fable (R.), Perched on Parnassus all night long, He [an owl] hoots a sonnet or a song.
4. Applied to certain sounds mechanically produced, esp. that of a steam siren or ‘hooter’, used as a signal to workmen for beginning or ceasing work, a fog-signal, etc. Also, to emit the sound of a motor-horn (said of the horn, the motor vehicle, or the driver). Also trans. to hoot her way (of a ship): to make her way (as in a fog) with continuous hooting.
1883Stevenson Silverado Sq. (1886) 84 A cuckoo-clock..hooted at intervals. 1890Daily News 29 Sept. 6/6 It was not a dangerous fog, but our ship had to hoot her way for some distance down. 1896R. Kipling Seven Seas 3 Through the yelling Channel tempest when the siren hoots and roars. 1912Beerbohm in Seven Men (1919) 129 Our car neither slackened nor hooted. 1927[see honk n. b]. 1957A. Clarke Later Poems (1961) 58 Badge and holy medal guide Your cars home, hooting through our dirtiest lanes. 1966J. Betjeman High & Low 65 Who dares to come hooting at me? I only give way to a Jag.
Add:[4.] b. trans. Of the driver of a motor vehicle or (occas.) transf. of the vehicle itself: to sound (a horn); to transmit or express by making such a sound. Cf. honk v. 2 b.
1948‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair x. 112, I shall hoot the initials of your beautiful name on the horn. 1958I. Murdoch Bell ii. 27 He stopped the car beside the wall, its wheels deep in the grass, and hooted the horn twice. 1976Economist 23 Oct. 54/3 Hundreds of off-duty policemen have demonstrated in the streets of New York, keeping residents and hospital patients awake by hooting their horns. 1989Independent 27 Nov. 1/6 Passing cars, many adorned with the national flag or red, white and blue ribbons, hooted their support.
▪ III. hoot, n.1|huːt|
Forms: 6 hute, 6–7 hout, (7 whout, whoote), 7– hoot.
[f. hoot v.]
1. a. A loud inarticulate exclamation, a shout, outcry.
1600Holland Livy xxiii. xix. 487 Anniball made a hout at it [exclamaret], and cried alowd: What? shall we sit heere about Casilinum so long? a1610Healey Epictetus' Man. (1636) 70 But for the whootes, and cryes, and other turbulent motions avoide them utterly. 1859T. G. Bonney in Mrs. Cole Lady's Tour Monte Rosa App. 395 A marmot..scampered rapidly away among the rocks at the hoot of our guides.
b. A sound produced mechanically by a motor-horn, factory whistle, or the like.
1904A. B. F. Young Compl. Motorist (ed. 2) xii. 258 You should have a connection from the exhaust pipe led into a small reservoir and thence into the horn, so that on turning a tap a prolonged hoot will be emitted. 1927Scots Observer 14 May 17/1 An imperative horn hoot made him turn his head. 1963H. Garner in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 52 A long hoarse hoot of the factory whistle announced the lunch break.
c. A laugh; a cause of laughter, a joke, a very amusing situation. colloq.
1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §281/4 Something humorous,..hoot. Ibid. §408/1 Humorist; amusing person,..hoot. 1969Punch 17 Dec. 990 All the chaps chuck their clubs in a heap, and the wives have to pick a club and go off with the owner; it's going to be an absolute hoot! 1970‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Cookie Bird iii. 23 Jansy can imitate anybody. So can I... We'd have the whole form in hoots. 1971Guardian 27 Sept. 10/1 It's a little quaint (‘a bit of a hoot,’ Dews would say) to hear him mention Peter Brook first. 1973‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Starry Bird xiii. 188, I started talking shop, a hoot for Jacko, if he had heard me.
2. spec. A shout of disapprobation or obloquy.
1612T. James Jesuits' Downf. 53 Hee was hissed out the College with whouts and hobubs. 1660Fisher Rustick's Alarm Wks. (1679) 103 For all the then Hout, and the still stout standing of thy Rout of rude ones to the contrary, I still say the same. 1893Leland Mem. I. 138, I heard certain mutterings and hoots among the students.
3. The cry or call of an owl. (Sometimes imitated as to-hoot, too-hoot, to-hoo.)
1795Wolcott (P. Pindar) Lousiad iii. Wks. 1812 I. 248 To-hoot of Owls amid the dusky vales. 1852Wood Nat. Hist. (1874) 281 The voice of the Brown Owl is a loud monotonous hoot. 1863Kingsley Water-Bab. iv. (1886) 146 He..listened to the owl's hoot.
4. hoot owl, the Tawny Owl, Syrnium aluco.
1885Swainson Prov. Names Birds 129 Tawny owl (Syrnium aluco), Hoot owl (Craven). 1893Northumbld. Gloss. 384 The tawny owl (Syrnium aluco) is called brown owl, hoot owl and Jenny hoolet.
▪ IV. hoot, n.2 colloq. (orig. U.S.).|huːt|
[Perhaps the same as hoot n.1 or int. Cf. hooter2.]
The smallest amount or particle; a whit or atom. Chiefly with negative and in phrases to give (care, matter) two hoots (a hoot).
1878J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxxviii. 615, I got onto my reaper and banged down every hoot of it before Monday night. 1923R. D. Paine Comr. Rolling Ocean xii. 214, I am glad of that even if he did tell me that as a supercargo I wasn't worth a hoot in hades. 1925N. Venner Imperfect Imposter iv, I can't see this place gives a hoot whether I'm here or not. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 120 I don't care two hoots in hell. 1926A. P. Herbert She-Shanties 36 We did not care a hoot. 1926T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (1935) vi. lxxx. 447 Not that my maimed will now cared a hoot about the Arab Revolt. 1927Observer 9 Oct. 13 It doesn't matter two hoots how much Oxford is filmed. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 351, I did not care three tanker's hoots..for any feelings. 1943K. Tennant Ride on Stranger xix. 214, I don't see that it matters two hoots in hell if you don't function. 1947O. Sitwell Novels of G. Meredith 4 The human being who is not worth a tinker's cuss,—or, in a more elegant simile, two hoots—does not exist. 1957A. Grimble Return to Islands iv. 78 Not that they gave a hoot for what I might say. 1963V. Nabokov Gift iv. 235 He most definitely did not give a hoot for the opinions of specialists. 1966Listener 27 Oct. 613/1 Winston Churchill was idiosyncratic in that he did not care a hoot about being thought a gentleman.
▪ V. hoot, n.3 N.Z. slang.|huːt|
Also 9 hootoo, hout, hutu, etc.
[ad. Maori utu utu.]
Money paid as recompense; (as a generic term) money.
1820J. Butler in Barton Earliest N.Z. (1927) iii. 66 He and his people went and robbed Boyle for the (hutu) payment. 1828W. Horton N.Z. 1/3 He then seized one of our axes..saying that should be the hutu or payment for what he had done. 1830G. L. Craik New Zealanders x. 242 What he now wanted, he said, was hootoo, or payment. 1834E. Markham N.Z. or Recollections of it (MS.) 5 The Cabin boy counted 8 Teeth marks and the Hout or Compensation money was 8 Figs of Tobacco. 1842N.Z. Jrnl. LXI. 117/2 Ask them [sc. Maoris] what is the hute or price. 1879J. Barr Old Identities xxxvii. 333 The land that's waste they'll parcel oot..And sell't to all that's got the hoot. 1917Chrons. N.Z.E.F. 5 Sept. 28/1 Pig Island N.C.O.'s only go for the extra couple of bob a day..the hoot is all they're chasing. c1926‘Mixer’ Transport Workers' Song Bk. 5 He gets his ‘hoot’, forgets his dues. 1938X. Herbert Capricornia xx. 274 On the construction you could make a pot of hoot in no time. 1953Landfall VII. 250 Put on a quid for me, for a place—I've got the hoot. 1961B. Crump Hang on a Minute 144 Reckon we ought to have something to aim at, like getting a bit of hoot together to buy a little farm or a place to live or something. 1967K. Giles Death & Mr Prettyman ii. 57, I got the idea of starting a chain of those places..for blokes without much hoot and wanting a clean bed. 1970N.Z. Listener 30 Jan. 12/2 ‘Hoot?’ I said. I hadn't heard that word for money in years. I suppose in an isolated cut-off place..slang would ossify.
▪ VI. hoot, -e
obs. forms of hot. |