tooting

Verb

toot (third-person singular simple present toots, present participle tooting, simple past and past participle tooted)

1. To stand out, or be prominent.
   • Now rise up, Master Huddypeke, Your tail toteth out behind.1519, John Rastell, Four Elements
2. To peep; to look narrowly.
   • In the court, in the noblemen's houses, at every merchant's house, those Observants were spying, tooting, and looking, watching and prying, what they might hear or see against the see of Rome.1550 November 9, Hugh Latimer, A Sermon preached at Stamford
3. To see; to spy.
4. To produce the noise of a horn or whistle.
   • The island rang, as yet, with the tooting horns and rattling teams of mail-coaches.1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes

   Synonyms:

   poop

5. To cause a horn or whistle to produce a noise.
   • "In the morning, we get deer on the line. We tend not to 'toot' them because it seems that only makes them more likely to run across the track."2025 August 20, Paul Clifton, “A driver's eye view of East West Rail”, in RAIL, number 1042, page 33
6. (slang) To flatulate.

   Synonyms:

   badger, blow off, break ass, break wind, bust ass, crepitate, curmur, cut one, cut one loose, cut the cheese

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