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English Dictionary: toot by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toot
n
  1. a blast of a horn
  2. revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party
    Synonym(s): carouse, carousal, bender, toot, booze-up
v
  1. make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared" [syn: honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot]
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.
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