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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TOOT, v.i. [L. do, dedi.]
1. To stand out or be prominent. [Not in use.]
2. To make a particular noise with the tongue articulating with the root of the upper teeth, at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to sound a horn in a particular manner.
This writer should wear a tooting horn.
3. To peep; to look narrowly. [Not in use, and probably a mistaken interpretation.]
TOOT, v.t. To sound; as, to toot the horn.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a blast of a horn
2: revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party [syn: carouse, carousal, bender, toot, booze-up] v
1: make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared" [syn: honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb Etymology: probably imitative Date: circa 1510 intransitive verb 1. a. to sound a short blast <the horn tooted> b. to sound a note or call suggesting the short blast of a wind instrument 2. to blow or sound an instrument (as a horn) especially so as to produce short blasts transitive verb 1. to cause to sound <toot a whistle> 2. slang to take in (as cocaine) by inhalation ; snort • tooter noun II. noun Date: 1641 a short blast (as on a horn); also a sound resembling such a blast III. noun Etymology: Scots toot to drink heavily Date: circa 1790 a drinking bout ; spree

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. & v. --n. 1 a short sharp sound as made by a horn, trumpet, or whistle. 2 US sl. cocaine or a snort (see SNORT n. 4) of cocaine. --v. 1 tr. sound (a horn etc.) with a short sharp sound. 2 intr. give out such a sound. Derivatives: tooter n. Etymology: prob. f. MLG tuten, or imit. 2. n. Austral. sl. a lavatory. Etymology: 20th c.: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Toot Toot, v. t. To see; to spy. [Obs.] --P. Plowman.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(toots, tooting, tooted) If someone toots their car horn or if a car horn toots, it produces a short sound or series of sounds. People set off fireworks and tooted their car horns... Car horns toot as cyclists dart precariously through the traffic... = hoot VERB: V n, V • Toot is also a noun. The driver gave me a wave and a toot. N-SING

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Blow (as a horn), sound.

Moby Thesaurus

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