Doot vs Toot - What's the difference?
doot | toot |
(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." }}
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 doot and toot
is that doot is doubt while toot is to stand out, or be prominent.As a noun toot is
the noise of a horn or whistle.doot
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Anagrams
* ----toot
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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.
