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 /tʊt/) 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



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Word of the Day

25 April 2024

TYPIFY

(verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; “The fugue typifies Bach’s style of composition”


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