Definitions for hoot

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Spelling: [hoot]

IPA: /hut/

Hoot is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in hoot (hoot).

Definitions for hoot

noun

1. the cry of an owl.
2. any similar sound, as an inarticulate shout.
3. a cry or shout, especially of disapproval or derision.
4. British. a horn, siren, or whistle, especially a factory whistle.
5. Informal. the least bit of concern, interest, or thought; trifle:
6. Slang. an extremely funny person, situation, or event:

Idioms

1. not give / care a hoot,, Informal. to not care at all: Also, not give/care two hoots.

interjection

1. (used as an expression of impatience, dissatisfaction, objection, or dislike.)

verb (used with object)

1. to assail with shouts of disapproval or derision:
2. to drive out, off, or away by hooting.
3. to express in hoots:

verb (used without object)

1. to cry out or shout, especially in disapproval or derision.
2. to utter the cry characteristic of an owl.
3. to utter a similar sound.
4. Chiefly British. to blow a horn or whistle; toot.

Origin of hoot

1150-1200; Middle English hoten, huten, houten (verb); perhaps imitative

Examples for hoot

He grinned to himself, and just then the hoot of an owl sounded.

Take away the castles, and not even a German would give a hoot for it.

The Explosion at the Wig Factory was about as big of a hoot as you can comfortably call a tragedy like an explosion.

It was between nine and ten o'clock that Jack heard the hoot of an owl.

hooters is cleverly asking me to “Give a hoot” about breast cancer.

“ John F. Kennedy Jr. was a hoot to do at his first convention,” Sheehan says.

The Palestinian Authority didn't give a hoot what the reasons were.

Anyway, we can tell in a minute or two, 'cause them owls are sure to hoot again.

But I thought that there was a hoot of laughter in the high wail of the wind.

I thought you were a hoot on Community as the lawyer for the estate of Pierce.