Hoot vs Holt - What's the difference?
hoot | holt |
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
A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), Book X, ii:
*:As when a savage wolf, chas'd from the fold, / To hide his head runs to some holt or wood.
* (1809-1892)
*:She sent her voice though all the holt Before her, and the park.
*1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad), XXXI, line 5
*:[the gale] 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger.
The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.
As a noun hoot
is a derisive cry or shout.As a verb hoot
is to cry out or shout in contempt.As a proper noun holt is
an english and north-west european topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood.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.