Tooled vs Tooted - What's the difference?
tooled | tooted |
(tool)
Worked with a tool.
(bookbinding) Impressed with an ornamental design.
*1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 22:
*:A few sets of tooled leather bindings were set out on narrow polished tables, between book ends.
(toot)
The noise of a horn or whistle.
(by extension, informal) A fart; flatus.
(uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
(informal) A spree of drunkness.
To stand out, or be prominent.
To peep; to look narrowly.
* Spenser
To see; to spy.
To flatulate.
To make the sound of a horn or whistle.
* Thackeray
To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound.
To go on a drinking binge.
As verbs the difference between tooled and tooted
is that tooled is (tool) while tooted is (toot).As an adjective tooled
is worked with a tool.tooled
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)Anagrams
* *tooted
English
Verb
(head)toot
English
Alternative forms
* tout (in some verb senses only)Noun
(en noun)- He gave a little toot of the horn, to get their attention.
Derived terms
* on a tootVerb
(en verb)- (Howell)
- (Latimer)
- for birds in bushes tooting
- Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches.