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Hooting vs Howling - What's the difference?

hooting | howling |

As verbs the difference between hooting and howling

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

As nouns the difference between hooting and howling

is that hooting is the sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound while howling is the act of producing howls.

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. }}

    howling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of producing howls.
    • The howling of wolves is haunting at night.

    Verb

    (head)