toot
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toot¹
- /ˈtuːt/ UK
- /ˈtut/ US
- /ˈtʊt/
Rhymes with -uːt, -ʊt
Where it comes from
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”).
noun toots
- The noise of a horn or whistle. He gave a little toot of the horn, to get their attention.
- A fart; flatus.
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Cocaine.
Similar: benzoylmethylecgonine, blow, Bolivian marching powder, booger sugar, boots, California corn flakes, charlie, ching, coke, corinne, crystals, flake
- A portion of cocaine that a person snorts. So he took a toot. A couple of days later he did another, then another. Soon Harry was using more coke than he had done in his whole life.
- A spree of drunkenness. Most of the people we observed [in the casino] were elderly, retired folk; many of them, we conjectured, were widows on a toot the like of which they'd never experienced in their whole lives.
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Rubbish; tat.
I'm not paying fifty pounds for this load of old toot!
Similar: cultch, crap, debris, dreck, drek, garbage, gash, junk, litter, pelf, piece of crap, piece of garbage
- A message on the social networking software Mastodon. As for layout, Mastodon feels a little like TweetDeck, with columns for your toots, toots from the people you follow, your mentions, and (unlike Twitter) a timeline of all public posts being shared by every user on the platform.
verb toots · tooting · tooted
- 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.
- To see; to spy.
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To produce the noise of a horn or whistle.
The island rang, as yet, with the tooting horns and rattling teams of mail-coaches.
Similar: poop
- 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."
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To flatulate.
Similar: badger, blow off, break ass, break wind, bust ass, crepitate, curmur, cut one, cut one loose, cut the cheese, drop a bomb, drop one's guts
- 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.
toot²
- /ˈtʊt/
Rhymes with -ʊt
Where it comes from
Perhaps a contraction of toilet.
noun toots
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A toilet.
Similar: bathroom, latrine, necessarium, toilet, toilet room, urinal, water closet, WC, cloaca, closet, jacques, kocay
toot³
Where it comes from
An alteration of tot, borrowed from Scots.
noun toots
- A small child; alternative form of tot
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: honk, beep, claxon, blare, bender, tear, bust, binge, booze-up, whistle, blast, spree, bacchanal, tootling, tootle, honking
Translations
Talk about this word "toot." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/toot. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. toot. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/toot "toot." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/toot.Cite this
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title = {toot},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/toot},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
