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Hooting vs Rattling - What's the difference?

hooting | rattling |

As verbs the difference between hooting and rattling

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

As nouns the difference between hooting and rattling

is that hooting is the sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound while rattling is rattle a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another.

As an adjective rattling is

lively, quick (speech, pace).

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. }}

    rattling

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lively, quick (speech, pace).
  • (intensifier) good, fine.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
      Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
  • * (James Joyce)
    • I'd like nothing better this minute, said Mr Browne stoutly, than a rattling fine walk in the country or a fast drive with a good spanking goer between the shafts.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another)
  • (nautical)

    • Verb

    (head)