English Dictionary: toot | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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. [bd]A tooting horn.[b8] --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. |