hootn.¹

Brit.

/huːt/, U.S.

/hut/

Forms: 1500s hute, 1500s–1600s hout, (1600s whout, whoote), 1600s– hoot.

Etymology: < hoot v.

a. A loud inarticulate exclamation, a shout, outcry.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [noun]

cryc1380

clamoura1382

hallowc1440

shout1487

spraich1513

routa1522

rear1567

outshout1579

shoutcry1582

hollo1598

hoot1600

hulloo?1706

halloo1707

holloa1757

bawl1792

holler1825

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiii. xix. 487 Anniball made a hout at it [L. exclamaret], and cried alowd: What? shall we sit heere about Casilinum so long?

a1610 J. Healey tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) 70 But for the whootes, and cryes, and other turbulent motions avoide them utterly.

1859 T. 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of horn > [noun]

seekc1500

poopa1556

gibbet1590

honking1844

tra-ra1900

hoot1904

honk1905

honk-honk1908

klaxoning1922

beep-beep1929

parp1936

1904 A. 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.

1927 Scots Observer 14 May 17/1 An imperative horn hoot made him turn his head.

1963 H. 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. colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > that which causes or is subject of laughter

laughterOE

laughing game1530

laughing matter1549

laugh1689

scream1888

shriek1930

giggle1936

hoot1942

crack-up1961

laugher1973

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §281/4 Something humorous,..hoot.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §408/1 Humorist; amusing person,..hoot.

1969 Punch 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.

1971 Guardian 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.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > [noun] > expression of disapproval > by sounds or exclamations

hootinga1225

hissingc1384

fie?1550

acclamation1602

hiss1602

hoot1612

catcall1749

catcallingc1781

scraping1785

sibilation1822

the big bird1825

boo hoo1825

booing1830

Kentish fire1834

boo-hooing1865

boo1884

slow handclap1904

tutting1929

slow handclapping1932

slow clap1937

1612 T. James Life Father Parsons in Iesuits Downefall 53 Hee was hissed out the College with whouts and hobubs.

1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos i. 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.

1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs 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.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > sound made by

whoop1582

tu-whit tu-whoo1655

woo-hoo1656

hoot1791

tu-whoo1830

hooting1837

tu-whooing1838

owl-hoot1850

1791 ‘P. Pindar’ Lousiad: Canto III 6 To hoot of Owls amid the dusky vales.

1852 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (1874) 281 The voice of the Brown Owl is a loud monotonous hoot.

1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies iv. 131 He..listened to the owl's hoot.

4. hoot owl n. the Tawny Owl, Syrnium aluco.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > family Strigidae > genus Strix > strix aluco (tawny owl)

jenny whooper1600

aluco1657

grey owl1673

ivy-owl1674

brown owl1678

tawny owl1766

wood-owl1809

hoot owl1885

1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 129 Tawny owl (Syrnium aluco), Hoot owl (Craven).

1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words The tawny owl (Syrnium aluco) is called brown owl, hoot owl, and Jenny hoolet.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

hootn.²

Brit.

/huːt/, U.S.

/hut/

Etymology: Perhaps the same as hoot n.¹ or hoot int. Compare hooter n.²

colloquial (originally U.S.).

The smallest amount or particle; a whit or atom. Chiefly with negative and in phrases to give (also care, matter) two hoots (or a hoot).

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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > the smallest amount > a jot

cornc888

grotc888

prickleOE

prickOE

pointc1300

grain1377

hair1377

motec1390

twynt1399

mitec1400

tarec1405

drop1413

ace?1440

tittlea1450

whita1450

jot1526

Jack1530

plack1530

farthingc1540

minima1585

scintil1599

atom1626

scintillation1650

punct1653

doit1660

scintilla1674

rap1792

haet1802

dottle1808

smiggot1823

hooter1839

heartbeat1855

pick1866

filament1868

hoot1878

1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxxviii. 615 I got onto my reaper and banged down every hoot of it before Monday night.

1923 R. D. Paine Comrades 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.

1925 N. Venner Imperfect Impostor iv I can't see this place gives a hoot whether I'm here or not.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 120 I don't care two hoots in hell.

1926 A. P. Herbert She-shanties 36 We did not care a hoot.

1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) lxxxi. 429 Not that my maimed will now cared a hoot about the Arab Revolt.

1927 Observer 9 Oct. 13 It doesn't matter two hoots how much Oxford is filmed.

1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 351 I did not care three tanker's hoots..for any feelings.

1943 K. Tennant Ride on Stranger xix. 214 I don't see that it matters two hoots in hell if you don't function.

1947 O. 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.

1957 A. Grimble Return to Islands iv. 78 Not that they gave a hoot for what I might say.

1963 V. Nabokov Gift iv. 235 He most definitely did not give a hoot for the opinions of specialists.

1966 Listener 27 Oct. 613/1 Winston Churchill was idiosyncratic in that he did not care a hoot about being thought a gentleman.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

hootn.³

Brit.

/huːt/, U.S.

/hut/, New Zealand English

/huːt/

Forms: Also 1800s hootoo, hout, hutu, etc.

Etymology: < Maori utu utu n.

New Zealand slang.

Money paid as recompense; (as a generic term) money.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > [noun]

yield601

angildeOE

maegboteOE

allowancea1325

finea1400

boota1450

reparationa1460

contentation1467

disdomage1502

contention1516

regard1568

contentment1603

atonement-money1611

satisfaction1621

satisfaction money1651

content1689

compensation1804

smart money1817

hoot1820

indemnization1836

compo1941

MCA1973

1820 J. Butler in Barton Earliest N.Z. (1927) iii. 66 He and his people went and robbed Boyle for the (hutu) payment.

1828 W. 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.

1830 G. L. Craik New Zealanders x. 242 What he now wanted, he said, was hootoo, or payment.

1834 E. Markham N.Z. Recoll. (MS.) 5 The Cabin boy counted 8 Teeth marks and the Hout or Compensation money was 8 Figs of Tobacco.

1842 N.Z. Jrnl. 61 117/2 Ask them [sc. Maoris] what is the hute or price.

1879 J. Barr Old Identities xxxvii. 333 The land that's waste they'll parcel oot..And sell't to all that's got the hoot.

1917 Chrons. 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.

1938 X. Herbert Capricornia xx. 274 On the construction you could make a pot of hoot in no time.

1953 Landfall 7 250 Put on a quid for me, for a place—I've got the hoot.

1961 B. Crump Hang on a Minute Mate 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.

1967 K. 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.

1970 N.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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

hootv.

Brit.

/huːt/, U.S.

/hut/

Forms: Middle English huten, (Middle English huit), Middle English houte(n, howte(n, hot(en, ( whwte), 1500s whought, 1500s–1600s howt, hout, 1600s– hoot, (1600s–1800s whoot).

Etymology: Middle English hūten is found c1200: perhaps 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.). Compare Swedish huta ut ‘to take one up sharply’, Middle High German hiuzen , húzen to call to the pursuit; also Danish huie to shout, cry, halloo, French huer to hoot, and the exclamations mentioned under hoot int. But the phonology presents difficulties: beside hūten , Middle English had hōten , northern and Scots huit , hute : perhaps a different word. Middle English hūten regularly gave later hout , howt , down to 17th cent., when its place appears to have been taken by hoot , which might either be the descendant of Old English hōten , or an alteration of hout under the influence of the natural sounds (compare cuckoo n.). The late spelling whoot was due to the influence of who, whom, whose.

a. intransitive. To shout, call out, make an inarticulate vocal noise; to toot with a horn; now, esp., to utter loud sounds of disapproval or obloquy.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > disapprove [verb (intransitive)] > express disapproval by sound or exclamation

hoota1225

hissa1425

hem and hawk1588

catcall1735

cluck1821

tut1832

fie-fie1836

boo1855

harrumph1936

tsk-tsk1966

steups1967

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > whoop or hoot

hoota1225

whoopc1390

whoo1599

to whoop out1704

a1225 [implied in: Juliana 52 Ne make þu me nawt men to huting ant to hokere. (at hooting n. a)].

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2387 Þei..went after þe werwolf..hotend out wiþ hornes.

c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3225 Þanne by-gunne þay to grede & houte.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 251/2 Howtyn, or cryyn, boo.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 251/2 Howtyn, or cryen as shepmenn,..celeumo.

c1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 182 Upon my spere, A gerle I bere, I dare welle swere Lett moderes howte.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 97 He..hearde all the whole citee whoughtyng and shoughtyng..with ioye and solace.

1610 S. Rid Martin Mark-all 35 At this newes the whole fraternity of Vagabonds whooted for ioy.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. ii. 244 And still as hee refus'd it, the rabblement howted, and clapp'd their chopt hands.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 19 Recusants..frequently passed through the Churches in time of Divine Service houting and ho-lo-ing.

1666 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 76 They [sc. undergraduates] houted and hum'd all the way from the Scooles to X^t. Ch.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 131. ¶7 I do not hoot and hollow and make a Noise.

1899 N.E.D. at Hoot Mod. The crowd began to hoot.

b. To call out or shout opprobriously at (†on) or after any one. (With indirect passive.)

ΚΠ

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15833 Þai huited on him viliker þan he had ben a hund.

1565 T. Stapleton Fortresse of Faith f. 118 What is more houted at, scoffed and scorned in Englande now.

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. H4 Yonge children howted at her as a strumpet.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. iii. 117 [It] should be hooted at Like an old Tale.

1624 J. Gee Foot out of Snare v. 27 All who meet with their modern books, may hoot at them.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxiv. 67 I cannot wear those good things without being whooted at.

1819 W. Irving Rip Van Winkle in Sketch Bk. i. 80 A troop of strange children ran at his heels, hooting after him.

c. To laugh. colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > laugh [verb (intransitive)]

laugheOE

larf1832

hoot1926

yock1938

1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) cxxiii. 651 At this onslaught I cackled out like a chicken, with the wild laughter of strain... I hooted out again.

1928 S. Vines Humours Unreconciled xv. 201 The first time I came across it, ‘Shakespeare has no bloody relation with Schiller’, I just hooted.

1959 N. 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.

1969 New Yorker 28 June 37/2 She'd mention him tragically, then hoot with laughter.

a. transitive. To assail with shouts or sounds of disapproval, contempt, or derision.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > express contempt of > vocally

hootc1175

tush1555

to make a tush at (or of)1600

pish1602

pooh-pooh1823

behoot1838

pshaw1848

pooh1858

phoo-phoo1865

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > disapprove of [verb (transitive)] > express disapproval of > by sound or exclamation

hootc1175

to clap out1550

explose?c1550

explode1563

hiss1598

exsibilate1601

to hum up, down1642

out-hiss1647

chuckle1681

catcall1700

scrape1773

groan1799

to get the (big) bird1825

boo1833

fie-fie1836

goose1838

sibilate1864

cluck1916

bird1927

slow handclap1949

tsk-tsk1966

tut1972

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4875 Whær se icc amm bitwenenn menn Icc hutedd amm. & þutedd.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2034 Ȝiff mann wollde tælenn þatt. & hutenn hire. & þutenn.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. ii. 218 He was nawhere welcome..Ouer al yhowted and yhote trusse.

?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 53 Fy on hir..Hutit be the halok.

1611 B. Jonson Catiline iii. sig. F1^v The Owle of Rome, whom Boyes and Girles will hout !

1728 E. Young Love of Fame ii, in Wks. (1757) I. 90 Tho' hiss'd and whooted by the pointing crowd.

1740 C. Pitt tr. Virgil Æneid II. xii. 603 How will the Latians hoot their Hero's Flight!

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 128 They don't 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > by various types of noise

hoot1393

hiss1519

hollo away?1602

vociferate1794

trumpet1795

bark1829

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iii. 228 He was..Ouer-al houted out and yhote trusse.

a1625 J. Fletcher Rule a Wife (1640) i. 2 I would give the boyes leave to whoote me out o' th parish.

1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 29 [He] could never recover himself but was houted and hissed home again.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 443. ⁋7 There is neither Mirth nor Good-humour in hooting a young Fellow out of Countenance.

1843 T. B. Macaulay Madame D'Arblay in Eclectic Mag. Apr. 454/1 His play had not been hooted from the boards.

1895 19th Cent. Aug. 327 They can tell the public that work which they elect to hoot off the stage is first rate in quality.

a. intransitive. Applied to the cry of some birds, spec. of the owl.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > cry or call

crowc1000

galec1275

pewa1425

call1486

hoota1500

the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [verb (intransitive)] > hoot

hoota1500

whoopa1556

tu-whoo1824

tu-whit1866

tu-whoot1912

owl1941

a1500 Cuckow & Night. 185 Thou shalt be as other that been forsake, And than thou shalt hoten as do I [the Cuckoo].

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. iii. 28 The Bird of Night did sit..vpon the Market place, Howting, and shreeking.

1618 G. Wither Wither's Motto in Wks. (1633) 531 No more..Then doth the Moone [fear] when dogs and birds of night Doe barking stand or whooting at her light.

1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 153 Even doves..will not whoot, if deprived of these and bird-pepper.

1820 W. Irving Westm. Abbey in Sketch Bk. vii. 27 The wind shall whistle through the broken arches, and the owl hoot from the shattered tower.

b. transitive. To utter or express by hooting.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [verb (transitive)] > hoot

hoota1788

a1788 N. Cotton Var. Pieces Verse & Prose (1791) I. 97 Perch'd 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 transitive. to hoot her way (of a ship): to make her way (as in a fog) with continuous hooting.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of horn > [verb (intransitive)]

poopc1390

hoot1883

honk1895

klaxon1924

parp1968

society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > signalling with other sounding instruments > sound signal on instrument [verb (intransitive)] > sound hooter or siren as signal

hoot1883

siren1895

1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 177 A cuckoo-clock..hooted at intervals.

1890 Daily News 29 Sept. 6/6 It was not a dangerous fog, but our ship had to hoot her way for some distance down.

1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 3 Through the yelling Channel tempest when the siren hoots and roars.

1912 M. Beerbohm in Seven Men (1919) 129 Our car neither slackened nor hooted.

1927 Observer 28 Aug. 10 In the shadiest lanes we were honked and hooted out of the way.

1957 A. Clarke Too Great Vine 10 Badge and holy medal guide Your cars home, hooting through our dirtiest lanes.

1966 J. Betjeman High & Low 65 Who dares to come hooting at me? I only give way to a Jag.

Draft additions 1993

b. transitive. Of the driver of a motor vehicle or (occasionally) transferred of the vehicle itself: to sound (a horn); to transmit or express by making such a sound. Cf. honk v.¹ 3c.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > driver or operator of a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > sound (a horn)

hoot1948

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [verb (transitive)] > sound (a horn)

hoot1989

1948 ‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair x. 112 I shall hoot the initials of your beautiful name on the horn.

1958 I. Murdoch Bell ii. 27 He stopped the car beside the wall, its wheels deep in the grass, and hooted the horn twice.

1976 Economist 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.

1989 Independent 27 Nov. 1/6 Passing cars, many adorned with the national flag or red, white and blue ribbons, hooted their support.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

hootint.

Brit.

/huːt/, U.S.

/hut/, Scottish English

/hut/

Forms: Also hout /haʊt/, hut

/hʌt/.

Etymology: Apparently a natural utterance of objection or repulsion, there being parallel forms in many languages: e.g. Swedish hut begone, used in taking one up sharply, Welsh hwt off! away!, Irish ut out! pshaw!, Gaelic ut! ut! interj. of disapprobation or dislike. Possibly connected in origin with hoot v.

Scottish and northern dialect.

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).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > exclamations of contempt [interjection] > exclamations of contemptuous rejection

pho1601

phoo1672

poh1679

hoot1681

hoots1824

poof1824

to shove something up your ass1895

nuts1910

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > expressions of disapproval [interjection]

fie1297

avoyc1300

spyc1315

comec1450

tuta1529

oh1533

hum1598

rufty-tufty1606

aroint thee!1608

hoot1681

boo1778

hoots1824

boo hoo1825

now, now1847

aw1852

tch1898

tsk1947

1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune i. i. 5 Hout ye Caterpillars, ye Locusts of the Nation.

1762 S. Foote Orators ii. 52 Hut, hut, not spake what should ail me.

?1795 H. Macneill Scotland's Scaith 13 (‘Wha can this new comer be?’) ‘Hoot!’ quo' Tam, ‘there's drouth in thinking—Let's in, Will, and syne we'll see.’

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 33 Hout tout, man—I would never be making a hum-dudgeon about a scart on the pow.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Hoot, Hout, Hoots, Howts,..equivalent to E. fy. Hoot-toot, of the same meaning, but stronger, and expressing greater dissatisfaction, contempt, or disbelief.

1879 L. B. Walford Cousins x. 133 ‘Hut, Emily! who said you were a tyrant?’

1883 M. Oliphant Ladies Lindores II. 130 ‘Hoot, mem, we'll just manage fine’.

1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Hoot! hoots! howt! hout! hut! huts! an expression of impatience. Sometimes hoot-toot, or otherwise varied.

Derivatives

hoots int. (also houts, huts) [with adverbial -s.]

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > exclamations of contempt [interjection] > exclamations of contemptuous rejection

pho1601

phoo1672

poh1679

hoot1681

hoots1824

poof1824

to shove something up your ass1895

nuts1910

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > expressions of disapproval [interjection]

fie1297

avoyc1300

spyc1315

comec1450

tuta1529

oh1533

hum1598

rufty-tufty1606

aroint thee!1608

hoot1681

boo1778

hoots1824

boo hoo1825

now, now1847

aw1852

tch1898

tsk1947

1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. Howts, huts..as ‘howts—nonsense’; ‘howts—ay’.

1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 772 Hoots! You're no serious in sayin' you're gaun to smoke already.

1832 W. Stephenson Coll. Local Poems, Songs, &c. 59 One with feelings cried, ‘Hoots, hoots, Let's roll him up in wool’.

1871 C. Gibbon For Lack of Gold I. v. 84 Hoots, not so bad as that.

1893 [see main sense].

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单词	hoot
释义	hootn.¹ Brit. /huːt/, U.S. /hut/ Forms: 1500s hute, 1500s–1600s hout, (1600s whout, whoote), 1600s– hoot. Etymology: < hoot v. 1. a. A loud inarticulate exclamation, a shout, outcry. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [noun] cryc1380 clamoura1382 hallowc1440 shout1487 spraich1513 routa1522 rear1567 outshout1579 shoutcry1582 hollo1598 hoot1600 hulloo?1706 halloo1707 holloa1757 bawl1792 holler1825 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiii. xix. 487 Anniball made a hout at it [L. exclamaret], and cried alowd: What? shall we sit heere about Casilinum so long? a1610 J. Healey tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) 70 But for the whootes, and cryes, and other turbulent motions avoide them utterly. 1859 T. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of horn > [noun] seekc1500 poopa1556 gibbet1590 honking1844 tra-ra1900 hoot1904 honk1905 honk-honk1908 klaxoning1922 beep-beep1929 parp1936 1904 A. 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. 1927 Scots Observer 14 May 17/1 An imperative horn hoot made him turn his head. 1963 H. 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. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > that which causes or is subject of laughter laughterOE laughing game1530 laughing matter1549 laugh1689 scream1888 shriek1930 giggle1936 hoot1942 crack-up1961 laugher1973 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §281/4 Something humorous,..hoot. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §408/1 Humorist; amusing person,..hoot. 1969 Punch 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. 1971 Guardian 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > [noun] > expression of disapproval > by sounds or exclamations hootinga1225 hissingc1384 fie?1550 acclamation1602 hiss1602 hoot1612 catcall1749 catcallingc1781 scraping1785 sibilation1822 the big bird1825 boo hoo1825 booing1830 Kentish fire1834 boo-hooing1865 boo1884 slow handclap1904 tutting1929 slow handclapping1932 slow clap1937 1612 T. James Life Father Parsons in Iesuits Downefall 53 Hee was hissed out the College with whouts and hobubs. 1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos i. 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. 1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs 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.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > sound made by whoop1582 tu-whit tu-whoo1655 woo-hoo1656 hoot1791 tu-whoo1830 hooting1837 tu-whooing1838 owl-hoot1850 1791 ‘P. Pindar’ Lousiad: Canto III 6 To hoot of Owls amid the dusky vales. 1852 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (1874) 281 The voice of the Brown Owl is a loud monotonous hoot. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies iv. 131 He..listened to the owl's hoot. 4. hoot owl n. the Tawny Owl, Syrnium aluco. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > family Strigidae > genus Strix > strix aluco (tawny owl) jenny whooper1600 aluco1657 grey owl1673 ivy-owl1674 brown owl1678 tawny owl1766 wood-owl1809 hoot owl1885 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 129 Tawny owl (Syrnium aluco), Hoot owl (Craven). 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words The tawny owl (Syrnium aluco) is called brown owl, hoot owl, and Jenny hoolet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hootn.² Brit. /huːt/, U.S. /hut/ Etymology: Perhaps the same as hoot n.¹ or hoot int. Compare hooter n.² colloquial (originally U.S.). The smallest amount or particle; a whit or atom. Chiefly with negative and in phrases to give (also care, matter) two hoots (or a hoot). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > the smallest amount > a jot cornc888 grotc888 prickleOE prickOE pointc1300 grain1377 hair1377 motec1390 twynt1399 mitec1400 tarec1405 drop1413 ace?1440 tittlea1450 whita1450 jot1526 Jack1530 plack1530 farthingc1540 minima1585 scintil1599 atom1626 scintillation1650 punct1653 doit1660 scintilla1674 rap1792 haet1802 dottle1808 smiggot1823 hooter1839 heartbeat1855 pick1866 filament1868 hoot1878 1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxxviii. 615 I got onto my reaper and banged down every hoot of it before Monday night. 1923 R. D. Paine Comrades 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. 1925 N. Venner Imperfect Impostor iv I can't see this place gives a hoot whether I'm here or not. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 120 I don't care two hoots in hell. 1926 A. P. Herbert She-shanties 36 We did not care a hoot. 1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) lxxxi. 429 Not that my maimed will now cared a hoot about the Arab Revolt. 1927 Observer 9 Oct. 13 It doesn't matter two hoots how much Oxford is filmed. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 351 I did not care three tanker's hoots..for any feelings. 1943 K. Tennant Ride on Stranger xix. 214 I don't see that it matters two hoots in hell if you don't function. 1947 O. 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. 1957 A. Grimble Return to Islands iv. 78 Not that they gave a hoot for what I might say. 1963 V. Nabokov Gift iv. 235 He most definitely did not give a hoot for the opinions of specialists. 1966 Listener 27 Oct. 613/1 Winston Churchill was idiosyncratic in that he did not care a hoot about being thought a gentleman. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hootn.³ Brit. /huːt/, U.S. /hut/, New Zealand English /huːt/ Forms: Also 1800s hootoo, hout, hutu, etc. Etymology: < Maori utu utu n. New Zealand slang. Money paid as recompense; (as a generic term) money. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > [noun] yield601 angildeOE maegboteOE allowancea1325 finea1400 boota1450 reparationa1460 contentation1467 disdomage1502 contention1516 regard1568 contentment1603 atonement-money1611 satisfaction1621 satisfaction money1651 content1689 compensation1804 smart money1817 hoot1820 indemnization1836 compo1941 MCA1973 1820 J. Butler in Barton Earliest N.Z. (1927) iii. 66 He and his people went and robbed Boyle for the (hutu) payment. 1828 W. 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. 1830 G. L. Craik New Zealanders x. 242 What he now wanted, he said, was hootoo, or payment. 1834 E. Markham N.Z. Recoll. (MS.) 5 The Cabin boy counted 8 Teeth marks and the Hout or Compensation money was 8 Figs of Tobacco. 1842 N.Z. Jrnl. 61 117/2 Ask them [sc. Maoris] what is the hute or price. 1879 J. Barr Old Identities xxxvii. 333 The land that's waste they'll parcel oot..And sell't to all that's got the hoot. 1917 Chrons. 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. 1938 X. Herbert Capricornia xx. 274 On the construction you could make a pot of hoot in no time. 1953 Landfall 7 250 Put on a quid for me, for a place—I've got the hoot. 1961 B. Crump Hang on a Minute Mate 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. 1967 K. 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. 1970 N.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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2021). hootv. Brit. /huːt/, U.S. /hut/ Forms: Middle English huten, (Middle English huit), Middle English houte(n, howte(n, hot(en, ( whwte), 1500s whought, 1500s–1600s howt, hout, 1600s– hoot, (1600s–1800s whoot). Etymology: Middle English hūten is found c1200: perhaps 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.). Compare Swedish huta ut ‘to take one up sharply’, Middle High German hiuzen , húzen to call to the pursuit; also Danish huie to shout, cry, halloo, French huer to hoot, and the exclamations mentioned under hoot int. But the phonology presents difficulties: beside hūten , Middle English had hōten , northern and Scots huit , hute : perhaps a different word. Middle English hūten regularly gave later hout , howt , down to 17th cent., when its place appears to have been taken by hoot , which might either be the descendant of Old English hōten , or an alteration of hout under the influence of the natural sounds (compare cuckoo n.). The late spelling whoot was due to the influence of who, whom, whose. 1. a. intransitive. To shout, call out, make an inarticulate vocal noise; to toot with a horn; now, esp., to utter loud sounds of disapproval or obloquy. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > disapprove [verb (intransitive)] > express disapproval by sound or exclamation hoota1225 hissa1425 hem and hawk1588 catcall1735 cluck1821 tut1832 fie-fie1836 boo1855 harrumph1936 tsk-tsk1966 steups1967 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > whoop or hoot hoota1225 whoopc1390 whoo1599 to whoop out1704 a1225 [implied in: Juliana 52 Ne make þu me nawt men to huting ant to hokere. (at hooting n. a)]. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2387 Þei..went after þe werwolf..hotend out wiþ hornes. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3225 Þanne by-gunne þay to grede & houte. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 251/2 Howtyn, or cryyn, boo. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 251/2 Howtyn, or cryen as shepmenn,..celeumo. c1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 182 Upon my spere, A gerle I bere, I dare welle swere Lett moderes howte. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 97 He..hearde all the whole citee whoughtyng and shoughtyng..with ioye and solace. 1610 S. Rid Martin Mark-all 35 At this newes the whole fraternity of Vagabonds whooted for ioy. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. ii. 244 And still as hee refus'd it, the rabblement howted, and clapp'd their chopt hands. View more context for this quotation 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 19 Recusants..frequently passed through the Churches in time of Divine Service houting and ho-lo-ing. 1666 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 76 They [sc. undergraduates] houted and hum'd all the way from the Scooles to X^t. Ch. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 131. ¶7 I do not hoot and hollow and make a Noise. 1899 N.E.D. at Hoot Mod. The crowd began to hoot. b. To call out or shout opprobriously at (†on) or after any one. (With indirect passive.) ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15833 Þai huited on him viliker þan he had ben a hund. 1565 T. Stapleton Fortresse of Faith f. 118 What is more houted at, scoffed and scorned in Englande now. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. H4 Yonge children howted at her as a strumpet. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. iii. 117 [It] should be hooted at Like an old Tale. View more context for this quotation 1624 J. Gee Foot out of Snare v. 27 All who meet with their modern books, may hoot at them. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxiv. 67 I cannot wear those good things without being whooted at. 1819 W. Irving Rip Van Winkle in Sketch Bk. i. 80 A troop of strange children ran at his heels, hooting after him. c. To laugh. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > laugh [verb (intransitive)] laugheOE larf1832 hoot1926 yock1938 yock1938 1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) cxxiii. 651 At this onslaught I cackled out like a chicken, with the wild laughter of strain... I hooted out again. 1928 S. Vines Humours Unreconciled xv. 201 The first time I came across it, ‘Shakespeare has no bloody relation with Schiller’, I just hooted. 1959 N. 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. 1969 New Yorker 28 June 37/2 She'd mention him tragically, then hoot with laughter. 2. a. transitive. To assail with shouts or sounds of disapproval, contempt, or derision. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > express contempt of > vocally hootc1175 tush1555 to make a tush at (or of)1600 pish1602 pooh-pooh1823 behoot1838 pshaw1848 pooh1858 phoo-phoo1865 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > disapprove of [verb (transitive)] > express disapproval of > by sound or exclamation hootc1175 to clap out1550 explose?c1550 explode1563 hiss1598 exsibilate1601 to hum up, down1642 out-hiss1647 chuckle1681 catcall1700 scrape1773 groan1799 to get the (big) bird1825 boo1833 fie-fie1836 goose1838 sibilate1864 cluck1916 bird1927 slow handclap1949 tsk-tsk1966 tut1972 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4875 Whær se icc amm bitwenenn menn Icc hutedd amm. & þutedd. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2034 Ȝiff mann wollde tælenn þatt. & hutenn hire. & þutenn. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. ii. 218 He was nawhere welcome..Ouer al yhowted and yhote trusse. ?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 53 Fy on hir..Hutit be the halok. 1611 B. Jonson Catiline iii. sig. F1^v The Owle of Rome, whom Boyes and Girles will hout ! View more context for this quotation 1728 E. Young Love of Fame ii, in Wks. (1757) I. 90 Tho' hiss'd and whooted by the pointing crowd. 1740 C. Pitt tr. Virgil Æneid II. xii. 603 How will the Latians hoot their Hero's Flight! 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 128 They don't 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. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > by various types of noise hoot1393 hiss1519 hollo away?1602 vociferate1794 trumpet1795 bark1829 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iii. 228 He was..Ouer-al houted out and yhote trusse. a1625 J. Fletcher Rule a Wife (1640) i. 2 I would give the boyes leave to whoote me out o' th parish. 1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 29 [He] could never recover himself but was houted and hissed home again. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 443. ⁋7 There is neither Mirth nor Good-humour in hooting a young Fellow out of Countenance. 1843 T. B. Macaulay Madame D'Arblay in Eclectic Mag. Apr. 454/1 His play had not been hooted from the boards. 1895 19th 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. intransitive. Applied to the cry of some birds, spec. of the owl. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > cry or call crowc1000 galec1275 pewa1425 call1486 hoota1500 the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [verb (intransitive)] > hoot hoota1500 whoopa1556 tu-whoo1824 tu-whit1866 tu-whoot1912 owl1941 a1500 Cuckow & Night. 185 Thou shalt be as other that been forsake, And than thou shalt hoten as do I [the Cuckoo]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. iii. 28 The Bird of Night did sit..vpon the Market place, Howting, and shreeking. 1618 G. Wither Wither's Motto in Wks. (1633) 531 No more..Then doth the Moone [fear] when dogs and birds of night Doe barking stand or whooting at her light. 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 153 Even doves..will not whoot, if deprived of these and bird-pepper. 1820 W. Irving Westm. Abbey in Sketch Bk. vii. 27 The wind shall whistle through the broken arches, and the owl hoot from the shattered tower. b. transitive. To utter or express by hooting. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [verb (transitive)] > hoot hoota1788 a1788 N. Cotton Var. Pieces Verse & Prose (1791) I. 97 Perch'd 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 transitive. to hoot her way (of a ship): to make her way (as in a fog) with continuous hooting. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of horn > [verb (intransitive)] poopc1390 hoot1883 honk1895 klaxon1924 parp1968 society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > signalling with other sounding instruments > sound signal on instrument [verb (intransitive)] > sound hooter or siren as signal hoot1883 siren1895 1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 177 A cuckoo-clock..hooted at intervals. 1890 Daily News 29 Sept. 6/6 It was not a dangerous fog, but our ship had to hoot her way for some distance down. 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 3 Through the yelling Channel tempest when the siren hoots and roars. 1912 M. Beerbohm in Seven Men (1919) 129 Our car neither slackened nor hooted. 1927 Observer 28 Aug. 10 In the shadiest lanes we were honked and hooted out of the way. 1957 A. Clarke Too Great Vine 10 Badge and holy medal guide Your cars home, hooting through our dirtiest lanes. 1966 J. Betjeman High & Low 65 Who dares to come hooting at me? I only give way to a Jag. Draft additions 1993 b. transitive. Of the driver of a motor vehicle or (occasionally) transferred of the vehicle itself: to sound (a horn); to transmit or express by making such a sound. Cf. honk v.¹ 3c. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > driver or operator of a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > sound (a horn) hoot1948 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [verb (transitive)] > sound (a horn) hoot1989 1948 ‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair x. 112 I shall hoot the initials of your beautiful name on the horn. 1958 I. Murdoch Bell ii. 27 He stopped the car beside the wall, its wheels deep in the grass, and hooted the horn twice. 1976 Economist 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. 1989 Independent 27 Nov. 1/6 Passing cars, many adorned with the national flag or red, white and blue ribbons, hooted their support. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hootint. Brit. /huːt/, U.S. /hut/, Scottish English /hut/ Forms: Also hout /haʊt/, hut /hʌt/. Etymology: Apparently a natural utterance of objection or repulsion, there being parallel forms in many languages: e.g. Swedish hut begone, used in taking one up sharply, Welsh hwt off! away!, Irish ut out! pshaw!, Gaelic ut! ut! interj. of disapprobation or dislike. Possibly connected in origin with hoot v. Scottish and northern dialect. 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). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > exclamations of contempt [interjection] > exclamations of contemptuous rejection pho1601 phoo1672 poh1679 hoot1681 hoots1824 poof1824 to shove something up your ass1895 nuts1910 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > expressions of disapproval [interjection] fie1297 avoyc1300 spyc1315 comec1450 tuta1529 oh1533 hum1598 rufty-tufty1606 aroint thee!1608 hoot1681 boo1778 hoots1824 boo hoo1825 now, now1847 aw1852 tch1898 tsk1947 1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune i. i. 5 Hout ye Caterpillars, ye Locusts of the Nation. 1762 S. Foote Orators ii. 52 Hut, hut, not spake what should ail me. ?1795 H. Macneill Scotland's Scaith 13 (‘Wha can this new comer be?’) ‘Hoot!’ quo' Tam, ‘there's drouth in thinking—Let's in, Will, and syne we'll see.’ 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 33 Hout tout, man—I would never be making a hum-dudgeon about a scart on the pow. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Hoot, Hout, Hoots, Howts,..equivalent to E. fy. Hoot-toot, of the same meaning, but stronger, and expressing greater dissatisfaction, contempt, or disbelief. 1879 L. B. Walford Cousins x. 133 ‘Hut, Emily! who said you were a tyrant?’ 1883 M. Oliphant Ladies Lindores II. 130 ‘Hoot, mem, we'll just manage fine’. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Hoot! hoots! howt! hout! hut! huts! an expression of impatience. Sometimes hoot-toot, or otherwise varied. Derivatives hoots int. (also houts, huts) [with adverbial -s.] ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > exclamations of contempt [interjection] > exclamations of contemptuous rejection pho1601 phoo1672 poh1679 hoot1681 hoots1824 poof1824 to shove something up your ass1895 nuts1910 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > expressions of disapproval [interjection] fie1297 avoyc1300 spyc1315 comec1450 tuta1529 oh1533 hum1598 rufty-tufty1606 aroint thee!1608 hoot1681 boo1778 hoots1824 boo hoo1825 now, now1847 aw1852 tch1898 tsk1947 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. Howts, huts..as ‘howts—nonsense’; ‘howts—ay’. 1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 772 Hoots! You're no serious in sayin' you're gaun to smoke already. 1832 W. Stephenson Coll. Local Poems, Songs, &c. 59 One with feelings cried, ‘Hoots, hoots, Let's roll him up in wool’. 1871 C. Gibbon For Lack of Gold I. v. 84 Hoots, not so bad as that. 1893 [see main sense]. 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随便看	to die up to die with one's boots off to die with, or of laughing to die without stroke to differ for the worse to dig a badger to drink hob or nob, hob a nob to drink it to drink it all out to drink like a fish to drink like a lord to drink maudlin to drink more than one can carry to drink of the cup of sorrow to drink off candle-ends to drink off candleends to drink one's eyes out to drink one's eyes out of one's head to drink oneself drunk to drink oneself into incoherence to drink oneself into spirit to drink oneself out of a situation to drink oneself silly to drink oneself sleepy to drink oneself stupid

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