Booted vs Tooted - What's the difference?
booted | tooted |
(boot)
Wearing a boot or boots.
* (Ambrose Bierce)
(toot)
The noise of a horn or whistle.
(by extension, informal) A fart; flatus.
(uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
(informal) A spree of drunkness.
To stand out, or be prominent.
To peep; to look narrowly.
* Spenser
To see; to spy.
To flatulate.
To make the sound of a horn or whistle.
* Thackeray
To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound.
To go on a drinking binge.
As verbs the difference between booted and tooted
is that booted is past tense of boot while tooted is past tense of toot.As an adjective booted
is wearing a boot or boots.booted
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- a booted foot
- He was hatted, booted , overcoated, and umbrellaed, as became a person who was about to expose himself to the night and the storm on an errand of charity
tooted
English
Verb
(head)toot
English
Alternative forms
* tout (in some verb senses only)Noun
(en noun)- He gave a little toot of the horn, to get their attention.
Derived terms
* on a tootVerb
(en verb)- (Howell)
- (Latimer)
- for birds in bushes tooting
- Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches.