Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hooting"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hoot \Hoot\ (h[=oo]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Hooted}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Hooting}.] [OE. hoten, houten, huten; cf. OSw. huta,
Sw. huta ut to take one up sharply, fr. Sw. hut interj.,
begone! cf. also W. hwt off! off with it! away! hoot!]
1. To cry out or shout in contempt.
Matrons and girls shall hoot at thee no more.
--Dryden.
2. To make the peculiar cry of an owl.
The clamorous owl that nightly hoots. --Shak.
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