hooting

Speech parts

1. hooting - Noun

2. hooting - Verb

Meaning

of Hoot

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

honk call howl roaring screech bellowing calling whistle crying laughter shouting outcry screaming shout yell
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Antonyms

howl bawl distress grief cry crying
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Phrases with the word

hooting owl hooting with laughter

Examples

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it'' Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way. Charles Baudelaire

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities. Benjamin N. Cardozo

We were restless for ages... After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields – and then I remembered it would be pouncing on mice. I love owls, but I wish God had made them vegetarian. Dodie Smith

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on. Elbert Hubbard

Hooting all right and sleeping all day, doesn't make an owl wise. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

hootenanny hooter hooters hooting owl hooting with laughter hootingly