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whoot

whoot verb: to hoot.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To hoot.
    • 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 Bills1609 July, William Strachey, Esquire, “A most dreadful tempest […] ”, in A true reportory of the wracke, and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates Knight; […]
    • 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.'1887, Allan Cunningham, Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, Honest Man John Ochiltree

Forms of whoot

third-person singular presentwhoots
present participlewhooting
past participlewhooted
pastwhooted

Origin of whoot

See hoot.

Questions about whoot

What does whoot mean?
Whoot means to hoot.
What part of speech is whoot?
Whoot is a verb.
What is the past tense of whoot?
The past tense of whoot is whooted.

Words near whoot in the dictionary

  1. Whoosis
  2. whoost
  3. whoosted
  4. whoosting
  5. whoosts
  6. whoot
  7. Whoota
  8. whooted
  9. whooties
  10. whooting
  11. whoots

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