whoot

English

Etymology

See hoot.

Verb

whoot (third-person singular simple present whoots, present participle whooting, simple past and past participle whooted)

1. (obsolete) To hoot.
   • 1609 July, William Strachey, Esquire, “A most dreadful tempest […] ”, in A true reportory of the wracke, and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates Knight; […] ‎^[1]:

     which Birds for their blindnesse (for they see weakly in the day) and for their cry and whooting, wee called the Sea Owle; they will bite cruelly with their crooked Bills

   • 1887, Allan Cunningham, Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, Honest Man John Ochiltree:

     I once had the courage to propose to her the endurance of another vigil; she set her hands to her mouth, and 'whooted out whoots three.'

References

• “whoot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• how to, how-to, howto