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Hollering vs Hooting - What's the difference?

hollering | hooting |

As verbs the difference between hollering and hooting

is that hollering is present participle of lang=en while hooting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between hollering and hooting

is that hollering is the act of one who hollers while hooting is the sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound.

hollering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who hollers.
  • * 2002 , Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (page 100)
    • They can have no idea who I am or what I've done, but they leap to and give slapstick chase anyway, their cartoon hollerings — "Stop! Thief" — sounding in my ears as I tear up the avenue

    hooting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound
  • * {{quote-book, year=1818, author=John Franklin, title=The Journey to the Polar Sea, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1828, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Popanilla is found "not guilty, and kicked out of court, amidst the hootings of the mob, without a stain upon his reputation." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1877, author=Washington Irving, title=Bracebridge Hall, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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. }}