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Mooting vs Hooting - What's the difference?

mooting | hooting |

As verbs the difference between mooting and hooting

is that mooting is present participle of moot while hooting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between mooting and hooting

is that mooting is the activity of taking part in a moot court while hooting is the sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound.

mooting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The activity of taking part in a moot court.
  • * (William Cobbett)
    • In this he had been guided, not by the mootings of lawyers, not by the reveries of pamphlets, not by the conversation of coffee-houses, but by the opinions of minds that were fitter to direct than to co-operate with such minds as his.

    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. }}