Hoof vs Hoot - What's the difference?
hoof | hoot |
The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering.
(slang) The human foot.
(geometry, dated) An ungula.
To trample with hooves.
(colloquial) To walk.
(informal) To dance, especially as a professional.
(colloquial, football, transitive) to kick, especially to kick the football a long way downfield with little accuracy.
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 nouns the difference between hoof and hoot
is that hoof is the tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering while hoot is a derisive cry or shout.As verbs the difference between hoof and hoot
is that hoof is to trample with hooves while hoot is to cry out or shout in contempt.hoof
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(en-noun)Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* (to kick)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.