hooting

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hooting

  • /ˈhuːtɪŋ/

Rhymes with -uːtɪŋ

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of hoot Fritz Lang in Hollywood has remade the French "La Bête Humaine" story, setting the drama, a little coldly, among the great hooting diesels of the Middle West routes, […].

noun hootings

  1. The sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound. One small species, which is known to them by its melancholy nocturnal hootings (for as it never appears in the day few even of the hunters have ever seen it) is particularly ominous.

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@misc{hooting_2026,
  title = {hooting},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hooting},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}