whoot

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Etymology

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See hoot.

Verb

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whoot (third-person singular simple present whoots, present participle whooting, simple past and past participle whooted)

  1. (obsolete) To hoot.
    • 1609 July, William Strachey, Esquire, “A most dreadful tempest [] ”, in A true reportory of the wracke, and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates Knight; [] [1]:
      which Birds for their blindnesse (for they see weakly in the day) and for their cry and whooting, wee called the Sea Owle; they will bite cruelly with their crooked Bills
    • 1887, Allan Cunningham, Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, Honest Man John Ochiltree:
      I once had the courage to propose to her the endurance of another vigil; she set her hands to her mouth, and 'whooted out whoots three.'

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