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Hooting vs Buzzing - What's the difference?

hooting | buzzing |

As verbs the difference between hooting and buzzing

is that hooting is while buzzing is .

As nouns the difference between hooting and buzzing

is that hooting is the sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound while buzzing is the action of the verb to buzz .

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. }}

    buzzing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • The action of the verb to buzz .
  • The sound produced by something that buzzes.
    • I can hear buzzing coming from the television.