toot
noun
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L18849 on Wikidata ↗verb
- to cause a horn to sound by blowing it
- to break wind; to fart
- make whistle noises
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈtʊt/ / /ˈtuːt/ / /ˈtut/
noun
Etymology: Perhaps a contraction of toilet.
- A toilet.
verb
Etymology: Probably onomatopoeic in origin. Compare Dutch toeteren (“to blow a horn”), German tuten, Swedish tuta, Danish tude. Noun etymology 1, noun sense 7 ("Mastodon post") and verb etymology 1, verb sense 10 ("to post on Mastodon") are influenced by tweet (“Twitter post”).
- To stand out, or be prominent.
“Now rise up, Master Huddypeke, Your tail toteth out behind.”
- To peep; to look narrowly.
“In the court, in the noblemen's houses, at every merchant's house, those Observants were spying, tooting, and looking, watching and prying, what they might hear or see against the see of Rome.”
“Long wandering up and downe the land, With bowe and bolts in either hand, For birds in bushes tooting.”
- To see; to spy.
- To produce the noise of a horn or whistle.
“The island rang, as yet, with the tooting horns and rattling teams of mail-coaches.”
“A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run.”
- To cause a horn or whistle to produce a noise.
“"In the morning, we get deer on the line. We tend not to 'toot' them because it seems that only makes them more likely to run across the track."”
- To flatulate.
- Of a queen bee, to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- To go on a drinking binge.
- To snort (a recreational drug).
“I had graduated from the simple tooting cocaine up my nose to smoking it, which was a completely different experience and animal.”
- To post a message on a Mastodon instance.
“Only want to toot in the Animal Rights instance? You can create an account there and do that.”
“One alternative to Fist is Mastodon, which looks and behaves a bit like Twitter (you don’t tweet, you “toot”).”