TOOT

carouse, carousal, bender, toot, booze-up

(noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party

toot

(noun) a blast of a horn

honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot

(verb) make a loud noise; “The horns of the taxis blared”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Noun

toot (countable and uncountable, plural toots)

The noise of a horn or whistle.

(by extension, informal) A fart; flatus.

(uncountable, slang) Cocaine.

(countable, slang) A portion of cocaine that a person snorts.

(informal) A spree of drunkness.

(informal, uncountable, pronounced /tĘŠt/) Rubbish; tat.

(internet) A message on the social networking software Mastodon.

Verb

toot (third-person singular simple present toots, present participle tooting, simple past and past participle tooted)

To stand out, or be prominent.

To peep; to look narrowly.

To see; to spy.

(slang) To flatulate.

To make the sound of a horn or whistle.

To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound.

(slang) To go on a drinking binge.

(slang) To snort (a recreational drug).

To post a message on a Mastodon instance (a self-hosted version of the networking software).

Synonyms

• (to fart): See flatulate

• (to sound a trumpet etc.): poop (obsolete)

Etymology 2

Noun

toot (plural toots)

(Australia, slang) A toilet.

Anagrams

• Otto, Toto, otto, toto

Source: Wiktionary


Toot, v. i. Etym: [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.

Definition: To see; to spy. [Obs.] P. Plowman.

Toot, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tooted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tooting.] Etym: [Cf. D. toeten to blow a horn, G. tuten, Sw.tuta, Dan. tude; probably of imitative origin.]

Definition: 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.

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



RESET




Word of the Day

23 January 2025

LEFT

(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”


Do you know this game?

Wordscapes

Wordscapes is a popular word game consistently in the top charts of both Google Play Store and Apple App Store. The Android version has more than 10 million installs. This guide will help you get more coins in less than two minutes of playing the game. Continue reading Wordscapes: Get More Coins