hoot

Pronunciation: /huːt/

The English word “hoot” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

A derisive cry or shout.
The cry of an owl.
A fun event or person.
A small particle; a whit or jot.
Money, especially in the form of cash given as payment.

verb

To cry out or shout in contempt.
To make a hoo, the cry of an owl.
To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
To sound the horn of a vehicle.

Etymology

From Middle English houten, huten, hoten, assumed to be of North Germanic origin: Swedish hut! (“begone!”, interjection) (also dialectal Norwegian hut, Bornholm Danish hut, hot), Swedish huta (“to drive someone away (with calls)”), Old Swedish huta (“to cast out in contempt”), related to Swedish hojta (“to holler”), hojt (“a holler”), further related to Middle High German hiuzen, hūzen (“to call…

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