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hooting

/ˈhuːtɪŋ/

hooting is the present participle and gerund of hoot.

Meaning of hoot

Verb

hoot (third-person singular simple present hoots, present participle hooting, simple past and past participle hooted)

  1. To cry out or shout in contempt.
    • Matrons and girls shall hoot at thee no more,1711, John Dryden, “Satire IX”, in Dryden’s Juvenal
  2. To make a hoo, the cry of an owl.
    • The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders / At our quaint spirits.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...
  3. To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
    • Mary felt extremely offended when the workers hooted at her.
  4. To sound the horn of a vehicle.
    • When you arrive to pick me up, hoot, and I'll come outside.

See all 10 meanings of hoot

Noun

hooting (plural hootings)

  1. The sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound.
    • One small species, which is known to them by its melancholy nocturnal hootings (for as it never appears in the day few even of the hunters have ever seen it) is particularly ominous.1818, John Franklin, The Journey to the Polar Sea
    • Popanilla is found "not guilty, and kicked out of court, amidst the hootings of the mob, without a stain upon his reputation."1828, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12

Forms of hooting

pluralhootings

Phrases with hooting

Words that rhyme with hooting

Questions about hooting

What does hooting mean?
Hooting means the sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound.
What is hooting the present participle and gerund of?
Hooting is the present participle and gerund of hoot.
What part of speech is hooting?
Hooting is a noun.
How do you pronounce hooting?
Hooting is pronounced /ˈhuːtɪŋ/.
What is the plural of hooting?
The plural of hooting is hootings.

Words near hooting in the dictionary

  1. hootier
  2. hootiest
  3. hootin'
  4. hootin' tootin'
  5. hootin', tootin'
  6. hooting
  7. hooting down
  8. hooting it up
  9. hootingly
  10. hootings
  11. hootmalalie

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