whoot
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See hoot.
Verb
[edit]whoot (third-person singular simple present whoots, present participle whooting, simple past and past participle whooted)
- (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.'
References
[edit]- “whoot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.