Hooting
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈhuːtɪŋ/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Hooting is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of hoot.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of hoot.
More Meanings
- The sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound.
Example Sentences
Popanilla is found "not guilty, and kicked out of court, amidst the hootings of the mob, without a stain upon his reputation."
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.
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.
Word Forms
- hootings
Related Words
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