Doot vs Hoot - What's the difference?
doot | hoot |
(chiefly, Scotland) doubt
* {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Jack London, title=A Daughter of the Snows, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Mair'd be a bother; an' I doot not ye'll mak' it all richt, lad." }}
* {{quote-book, year=1917, author=John Hay Beith, title=All In It: K(1) Carries On, chapter=, edition=
, passage=No doot he'll try to pass himself off as an officer, for to get better quarters!" }}
(chiefly, Scotland) think
* {{quote-book, year=1920, author=James C. Welsh, title=The Underworld, chapter=, edition=
, passage="I think my pipe's on the mantelshelf," returned Geordie, "but I doot it's empty." }}
A derisive cry or shout.
The cry of an owl.
(US, slang) A fun event or person. (See hootenanny)
A small particle
* 1878 , John Hanson Beadle, Western Wilds, and the Men who Redeem Them , page 611, Jones Brothers, 1878
To cry out or shout in contempt.
* Dryden
To make the cry of an owl.
* Shakespeare
To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
* Jonathan Swift
As verbs the difference between doot and hoot
is that doot is (chiefly|scotland) doubt while hoot is to cry out or shout in contempt.As a noun hoot is
a derisive cry or shout.doot
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* ----hoot
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Noun
(en noun)- Well, it was Sunday morning, and the wheat nothing like ripe; but it was a chance, and I got onto my reaper and banged down every hoot of it before Monday night.
Usage notes
* (small particle) The term is nearly always encountered in a negative sense in such phrases as don't care a hoot'' or ''don't give two hoots . * (derisive cry) The phrase a hoot and a holler'' has a very different meaning to ''hoot and holler''. The former is a short distance, the latter is a verb of ''derisive cry .Verb
(en verb)- Matrons and girls shall hoot at thee no more.
- the clamorous owl that nightly hoots
- Partridge and his clan may hoot me for a cheat.