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▪ I. ˈrooting, vbl. n.1
[f. root v.1 or n.1]
1. a. The action of taking or striking root; also fig.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 201 And þat we falle not in-to dispeir of goddis mercy for olde rotynge & custome in synne. c1440Promp. Parv. 437/2 Rotynge, or takyinge rote yn waxynge, radicacio. 1611Cotgr., Enracinement, a rooting, or taking root. a1620Dyke Right Receiving Christ (1640) 170 Plants and trees first roote before they growe, & then growth followes after their rooting. 1725Fam. Dict. s.v. Carnation, Let him..put the Earth down upon it to facilitate its Rooting. 1825Greenhouse Comp. I. 223 Rooting generally takes place in six months, but with some species a year is required. 1849Beck's Florist 297 That the plants which have been removed may get a chance of rooting before frosts set in.
b. attrib., as rooting-ground, rooting medium, rooting-place.
1827H. Steuart Planter's G. (1828) 451 In this way, in good rooting-ground, he would have roots sixteen or seventeen feet long. 1854Zoologist XII. 4445 If all the seed that fell should find no rooting-place. 1935A. F. Hort Garden Variety iv. 229 The rooting medium is about six inches of ordinary builders' sand.
2. a. A root; roots collectively; also, a firm hold or attachment by means of roots. Often fig.
a1300Cursor M. 9269 ‘Iesse,’ he said, ‘of his roting Sothfastle a wand suld spring’. 1526Tindale Matt. xiii. 6 Hitt cauth heet, and for lake off rotynge wyddred awaye. 1579Montgomerie Misc. Poems xlviii. 7 Quhais ruiting sure and toppis reaching he Mot brek the storme. a1619M. Fotherby Atheomastix i. x. §5 A weake, and a flickring opinion,..hauing no rooting, nor footing. 1674Z. Cawdrey Catholicon 17 This Parochial Combination would give the Royal interest the strongest rooting in the hearts of his subjects. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 25 Ashes..are best transplanted young because of their deep Rooting. 1763Mills Pract. Husb. III. 349 That the grass may have time to get good rooting. 1858London Rev. Oct. 28 The desire of gaining for oneself..a rooting, and a place of rest, on the soil of one's own land.
b. In phr. to take rooting.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark iv. 32 Because it coulde not for stones take rootyng but lacked rootes. 1591Spenser Ruins of Rome 248 Thence th' Imperiall Eagle rooting tooke. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage i. vi. (1614) 31 Religion..taketh naturally such rooting, that all politicall Lawes and tortures cannot pluck it vp. 1677A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 62 The Linen Manufacture..will take deep rooting and get a good Foundation on a sudden. 1728Morgan Algiers II. ii. 234 He determined to nip in the Bud this dangerous Rival, before he took too firm Rooting.
3. The action of implanting.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 225 He caused the croce of Christe to be placed in dorpes and in Tounis, to the ruiting of the Luife of Christe in the ground of the hartes of his awne.
4. The action of taking out or up by the roots.
1565Cooper Thesaurus, Extirpatio, a pluckynge vp by the rootes; a rootynge out. 1617Fletcher Valentinian iii. iii, Were it to save your worth, Or to redeem your name from rooting out,..I ought, and would dye for ye. 1632Sherwood, A rooting vp, rooting out, or plucking vp by the roote, desracinement. 1846Grote Greece (1862) II. 334 The rooting up of an olive-tree in Attica was forbidden. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. V. 507 To attempt a deliberate rooting up of the speech of their island kingdom.
5. coarse slang. Of a male: the action or process of copulating. (Now chiefly Austral.: cf. root v.1 10 b.)
1922Joyce Ulysses 754 All the poking and rooting and ploughing he had up in me. 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 41 All the vulgar linguistic emphasis is placed upon the poking element; fucking, screwing, rooting, shagging are all acts performed upon the passive female.
▪ II. ˈrooting, vbl. n.2
[f. root v.2]
1. The action of grubbing in the earth for food. Also transf.
1600Surflet Countrie Farme vii. xxvii. 853 The hunts⁓man therefore shall know the fairenes of the bore..by his traces, rootings, soile, and dung. 1611Cotgr., Fouge, the rooting of wild Swyne among Fearne, &c. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 387 They have a pretty device here..to prevent their hogs from rooting. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VII. 108 The jaws..are extended, and evidently formed for rooting in the ground. 1893Kipling Many Invent. 319 After two hours of rooting through this desolation at an average rate of five miles an hour.
attrib.1898Gardener's Mag. 3 Sept. 572/1 A good pig has been known to indicate 40 lbs. weight of truffles in a rooting day.
2. slang (chiefly U.S.). Cheering, encouraging, or otherwise supporting. Also in Comb., as rooting interest. Cf. root v.2 1 d.
1937D. Runyon in Collier's 21 Aug. 32/4 No talking and no rooting from the spectators is permitted. 1971L. Koppett N.Y. Times Guide Spectator Sports viii. 155 There is the team element as a rooting interest. 1977Time 25 July 51/2 One on One is a picture that..transcends its humble conception and develops what movie people used to call a ‘rooting interest’ in its characters.
▪ III. ˈrooting, ppl. a.1
[root v.1]
That takes or strikes root. (See also quot. 1776.)
1766Compl. Farmer s.v. Orchard, You should observe never to sow too near the trees, nor suffer any great rooting weeds to grow about them. 1776J. Lee Introd. Bot. 378 Radicans, rooting, striking Root laterally and fixing to other Bodies. 1841Penny Cycl. XX. 373/2 They possess rooting and floating stems. 1877Hulme Wild Fl. p. vi, Silverweed.—Flowers solitary on slender axillary peduncles, springing from the rooting nodes.
b. spec. in plant-names.
1841Penny Cycl. XIX. 485/2 Rhus radicans (Rooting Poison-Oak). 1859Miss Pratt Brit. Grasses 244 Rooting Bristle Fern. Fronds three or four times pinnatifid.
▪ IV. ˈrooting, ppl. a.2
[f. root v.2]
1. That roots or grubs.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. iii. 228 Thou eluish mark'd, abortiue, rooting Hogge. 1613–6W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. i, Nor boorish hog-heard fed his rooting swine. 1642Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. 95 Many others of your rooting Tribe. 1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 296 The rooting swine Beneath the..oak-trees grunt and whine.
2. In redupl. Comb., as rootin' tootin', (a) dial. rare, inquisitive, meddlesome; (b) slang (chiefly N. Amer.), noisy, rumbustious, boisterous; rip-roaring, lively. Cf. rooty-toot.
1875Nodal & Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial. 228 He's a rootin' tootin' sort of a chap. 1924L. B. Kozlowski in Catal. Copyright Entries (U.S. Copyright Off.) iii. 5698 (song-title) Roottin-toottin-Lou; from Kalamazoo. 1937Film Daily 1 May 4/3 (heading) Gene Autry in Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm. 1948Sun (Baltimore) 7 Jan. 13/1 Basketball games today have developed into rootin', tootin' contests, with more of the emphasis on the tootin'. 1949N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 27 Mar. 32 ‘Smoke up the Valley’ is actually a rootin'-tootin' romance of blazing six-shooters and gore. 1963New Statesman 24 May 786/3, I also..expressed mild surprise about a rootin' tootin' night club that advertised ‘Girls! Girls! Girls!’ |