hoot
/huːt/ verb C2- To cry out or shout in contempt.
- To make a hoo, the cry of an owl.
- To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts. · Mary felt extremely offended when the workers hooted at her.
- To sound the horn of a vehicle. · When you arrive to pick me up, hoot, and I'll come outside.
He/she/it hoots · Past hooted · Past participle hooted · -ing form hooting
Verb forms
- Base form
- hoot
- He/she/it
- hoots
- Past
- hooted
- Past participle
- hooted
- -ing form
- hooting
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Through Newbridge, a bustling little village where dogs barked at them and small boys hooted and curious faces peered from the windows, they drove, still in silence.
They clung around the necks of the big stone idols and shrieked as they skipped along the battlements, while Mowgli, dancing in the summerhouse, put his eye to the screenwork and hooted owl-fashion between his front teeth, to show his derision and contempt.
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