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whooting

whooting is the present participle and gerund of whoot.

Meaning of whoot

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; […]

Questions about whooting

What is whooting the present participle and gerund of?
Whooting is the present participle and gerund of whoot.

Words near whooting in the dictionary

  1. whoosts
  2. whoot
  3. Whoota
  4. whooted
  5. whooties
  6. whooting
  7. whoots
  8. whooty
  9. whoozit
  10. whoozits
  11. whop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whooting (page history and authors); whoot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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