TOOTING

Etymology

Disputed. It appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Totinges.

Proper noun

Tooting

A suburb of southern London,.

Verb

tooting

present participle of toot

Noun

tooting (plural tootings)

The sound of a toot.

Source: Wiktionary


TOOT

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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