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toot

 

  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Toot  \Toot\,  v.  i.  [OE.  toten,  AS  totian  to  project;  hence  to 
  peep  out.]  [Written  also  {tout}.] 
  1.  To  stand  out  or  be  prominent.  [Obs.]  --Howell. 
 
  2.  To  peep;  to  look  narrowly.  [Obs.]  --Latimer. 
 
  For  birds  in  bushes  tooting.  --Spenser. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Toot  \Toot\,  v.  t. 
  To  see  to  spy.  [Obs.]  --P.  Plowman. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Toot  \Toot\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Tooted};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Tooting}.]  [Cf.  D.  toeten  to  blow  a  horn,  G.  tuten,  Sw 
  tuta,  Dan.  tude;  probably  of  imitative  origin.] 
  To  blow  or  sound  a  horn;  to  make  similar  noise  by  contact  of 
  the  tongue  with  the  root  of  the  upper  teeth  at  the  beginning 
  and  end  of  the  sound;  also  to  give  forth  such  a  sound,  as  a 
  horn  when  blown.  ``A  tooting  horn.''  --Howell. 
 
  Tooting  horns  and  rattling  teams  of  mail  coaches. 
  --Thackeray. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Toot  \Toot\,  v.  t. 
  To  cause  to  sound,  as  a  horn,  the  note  being  modified  at  the 
  beginning  and  end  as  if  by  pronouncing  the  letter  t;  to  blow; 
  to  sound. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  toot 
  n  1:  a  blast  of  a  horn 
  2:  an  occasion  for  heavy  drinking;  "they  went  on  a  bust  that 
  lasted  three  days"  [syn:  {bust},  {tear},  {bender},  {binge}, 
  {booze-up}] 
  v  :  make  a  loud  noise;  "The  horns  of  the  taxis  blared"  [syn:  {honk}, 
  {blare},  {beep},  {claxon}]




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