[syn: honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Toot \Toot\, v. t.
To see; to spy. [Obs.] --P. Plowman.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Toot \Toot\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tooted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tooting.] [Cf. D. toeten to blow a horn, G. tuten, Sw.
tuta, Dan. tude; probably of imitative origin.]
To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of
the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning
and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a
horn when blown. "A tooting horn." --Howell.
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Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches.
--Thackeray.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Toot \Toot\, v. t.
To cause to sound, as a horn, the note being modified at the
beginning and end as if by pronouncing the letter t; to blow;
to sound.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Toot \Toot\, v. i. [OE. toten, AS. totian to project; hence, to
peep out.] [Written also tout.]
1. To stand out, or be prominent. [Obs.] --Howell.
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2. To peep; to look narrowly. [Obs.] --Latimer.
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For birds in bushes tooting. --Spenser.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
toot
n 1: a blast of a horn
2: revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party [syn: carouse,
carousal, bender, toot, booze-up]
v 1: make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared" [syn:
honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
84 Moby Thesaurus words for "toot":
advertise, announce, annunciate, bacchanal, bacchanalia,
bacchanalian, bagpipe, bat, bay, beep, bell, bender, binge, blare,
blast, blat, blow, blow a horn, blow the horn, bout, bray,
broadcast, bugle, bust, carillon, carousal, carouse, celebration,
clarion, compotation, debauch, disseminate, doodle, double-tongue,
drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, escapade, fanfare, fife,
fling, flourish of trumpets, flute, guzzle, honk, jag, lark, lip,
orgy, peal, pipe, ploy, potation, proclaim, pub-crawl, publish,
randan, randy, revel, shriek, sound, sound a tattoo, sound taps,
spree, squeal, symposium, tantara, tantarara, taps, tarantara,
tattoo, tear, tongue, tootle, triple-tongue, trumpet,
trumpet blast, trumpet call, tweedle, wassail, whistle, wind,
wind the horn, wingding