TOOT

v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To stand out, or be prominent. [Obs.] Howell.

2.
v.

To peep; to look narrowly. [Obs.] Latimer. For birds in bushes tooting. Spenser.

3.
v.

To see; to spy. [Obs.] P. Plowman.

4.
v.

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. Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches. Thackeray.

5.
v.

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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