Definitions for hoots

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Spelling: [hoot]

IPA: /hut/

Hoots is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in hoots (hoost).

Definitions for hoots

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 hoots

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

Examples for hoots

Not that I give two hoots about what happens to Dennison, mind!

Not from the hoots and the jeers, or vegetables—or even the half-bricks—eh?

But, hoots; I was nought but a body born a wee before her time.

Giovanni raised his arms tragically; the hoots clattered to the floor.

All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

In nature, screeches and hoots, in finite sequences, signal danger.

Lastly, at his speech last night, Cruz got lots of hoots and hollers for his stump speech about guns/growth/freedom.

To hoots and groans and laughter the tam-o'-shanter disappeared.

“I am now a grandmother,” she said to hoots from the audience.

The tawny owl has five eggs, white and smooth; and this is the kind that hoots at night.