Hoit vs Hoot - What's the difference?
hoit | hoot |
(archaic) to play the fool; to behave thoughtlessly and frivolously.
(obsolete) To leap; to caper; to romp noisily.
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 hoit and hoot
is that hoit is to play the fool; to behave thoughtlessly and frivolously while hoot is to cry out or shout in contempt.As a noun hoot is
a derisive cry or shout.hoit
English
Verb
(head)- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Derived terms
* hoity * hoity-toity ----hoot
English
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.