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Hotting vs Hooting - What's the difference?

hotting | hooting |

As nouns the difference between hotting and hooting

is that hotting is (british) riding in a high-performance stolen car, especially as a form of display while hooting is the sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound.

As a verb hooting is

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hotting

English

Noun

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  • (British) riding in a high-performance stolen car, especially as a form of display

    • References

    *OED additions 1997

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    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. }}