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Smoot vs Woot - What's the difference?

smoot | woot |

As a noun smoot

is (chiefly|greater boston) a unit of length defined as exactly sixty-seven inches]] (approximately 170 [[meter|meters) or smoot can be (british) a small opening built into a dry-stone wall as a bolthole allowing a person to cross the wall while impeding the livestock.

As an interjection woot is

expressing happiness or approval.

smoot

English

Etymology 1

(wikipedia smoot) Height of , who lay on the Harvard Bridge to measure it as an MIT fraternity prank.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, Greater Boston) A unit of length defined as exactly sixty-seven inches]] (approximately 1.70 [[meter, meters).

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) A small opening built into a dry-stone wall as a bolthole allowing a person to cross the wall while impeding the livestock.

    • Anagrams

    * * English eponyms

    woot

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • Expressing happiness or approval.
  • An exclamation of joy or excitement.

    • References

    * "Oxford adds woot! to dictionary", August 2011 ----