What does hooting mean?
Hooting means present participle and gerund of hoot.
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/ˈhuːtɪŋ/ · verb
present participle and gerund of hoot.
Fritz Lang in Hollywood has remade the French "La Bête Humaine" story, setting the drama, a little coldly, among the great hooting diesels of the Middle West routes, […].
One small species, which is known to them by its melancholy nocturnal hootings (for as it never appears in the day few even of the hunters have ever seen it) is particularly ominous.
Popanilla is found "not guilty, and kicked out of court, amidst the hootings of the mob, without a stain upon his reputation."
The hootings of this unhappy gentleman may generally be heard in the still evenings, when the rooks are all at rest; and I have often listened to them of a moonlight night with a kind of mysterious gratification.
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Hooting means present participle and gerund of hoot.
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Fritz Lang in Hollywood has remade the French "La Bête Humaine" story, setting the drama, a little coldly, among the great hooting diesels of the Middle West routes, […].
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