Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- interjection Used to express annoyance or objection.
- noun A hootenanny.
- intransitive verb To utter the characteristic cry of an owl.
- intransitive verb To make a loud raucous cry, especially of derision or contempt.
- intransitive verb To shout down or drive off with jeering cries.
- intransitive verb To express or convey by hooting.
- noun The characteristic cry of an owl.
- noun A sound suggesting the cry of an owl, especially the sound of a horn.
- noun A cry of scorn or derision.
- noun Informal One that is hilariously funny.
- idiom (not give/care) To be completely indifferent to.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cry out or shout in contempt.
- To cry as some owls: distinguished from
screech . - To drive or pursue with cries or shouts uttered in contempt; utter contemptuous cries or shouts at.
- noun A cry or shout in contempt.
- An exclamation expressive of dissatisfaction, of some degree of irritation, and sometimes of disbelief: equivalent to fie, tut, tush, pshaw, etc. Also hoot-toot, hout, hout-tout.
- noun The cry of an owl.
- noun Money paid as compensation; payment; recompense; remuneration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
- intransitive verb To cry out or shout in contempt.
- intransitive verb To make the peculiar cry of an owl.
- noun A derisive cry or shout.
- noun The cry of an owl.
- noun A very funny event, person, or experience.
- noun (Zoöl.) the barred owl (
Syrnium nebulosum ). SeeBarred owl . - noun not care at all.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
derisive cry orshout . - noun The cry of an
owl . - noun US, slang A
fun event or person. (Seehootenanny ) - verb To cry out or shout in
contempt . - verb To make the cry of an owl.
- verb To
assail withcontemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb to utter a loud clamorous shout
- noun a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
- verb utter the characteristic sound of owls
- noun a loud raucous cry (as of an owl)
- noun something of little value
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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July 13th, 2009 2: 16 pm ET what's a hoot is this woman could be as dumb as a box of rocks ... and because she's hispanic ... she's the 'one.
Graham: Confirmation likely barring 'complete meltdown' 2009
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It was probably a hoot of a character to watch when audiences didn't know who he was as well as they were about to --- The Odd Couple's just a few years in the future --- but looking back forty years now the hoot is in seeing him doing what would become his stock in trade, the grouchy, rumpled, slightly amoral cynic with a good heart somewhere underneath it all.
Lance Mannion: 2008
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It was probably a hoot of a character to watch when audiences didn't know who he was as well as they were about to --- The Odd Couple's just a few years in the future --- but looking back forty years now the hoot is in seeing him doing what would become his stock in trade, the grouchy, rumpled, slightly amoral cynic with a good heart somewhere underneath it all.
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I would never use the word hoot, and I respectfully ask that every time my name is brought up she would stop using the word "hoot."
Gawker 2009
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I would never use the word hoot and I respectfully ask that every time my name is brought up she would stop using the word "hoot."
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I would never use the word hoot and I respectfully ask that every time my name is brought up she would stop using the word "hoot."
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I would never use the word hoot and I respectfully ask that every time my name is brought up she would stop using the word "hoot."
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If that is made clear to the participants and the debate is refereed diligently to avoid the use of false dichotomy argumentation, then the “debate” would be a real hoot which is to say, the ID schmucks would have nothing to say.
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Well, Life Among The Savages is simply one long, uninterrupted hoot from the start, when Jackson, her husband and their two small children move out of New York and into a gloriously eccentric house in deepest Vermont, right until the finish, when Jackson brings her fourth baby home to greet the household (after her husband and eldest son have been surreptitiously running a book on when she’ll finally have it).
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What’s an even bigger hoot is the “godless communism” rap the religious put forth.
bilby commented on the word hoot
"MENENIUS: How! Was it we? we lov'd him, but, like beasts,
And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters,
Who did hoot him out o' the city."
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.
August 29, 2009