Hotter vs Hooter - What's the difference?
hotter | hooter |
(hot)
(UK, slang) One who steals a vehicle in order to joyride.
* 1992 , David P. Waddington, Contemporary Issues in Public Disorder (page 209)
(UK, dialect, North England, dated) To vibrate; to rattle.
* 1833 , Thomas Sopwith, An account of the mining districts of Alston Moor, Weardale and Teesdale in Cumberland and Durham (page 137)
As nouns the difference between hotter and hooter
is that hotter is one who steals a vehicle in order to joyride while hooter is a horn in a motor vehicle.As an adjective hotter
is comparative of hot.As a verb hotter
is to vibrate; to rattle.hotter
English
Adjective
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Unable effectively to give chase to the hotters for fear of endangering the lives of pedestrians and motorists, the police had been forced to play a waiting game
Verb
(en verb)- The jolting, hottering motion of the waggon, the splashing of the water, and the dark and narrow passage, all concur to produce a strange effect