Crossword clues for hooting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hoot \Hoot\ (h[=oo]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hooted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hooting.] [OE. hoten, houten, huten; cf. OSw. huta, Sw. huta ut to take one up sharply, fr. Sw. hut interj., begone! cf. also W. hwt off! off with it! away! hoot!]
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To cry out or shout in contempt.
Matrons and girls shall hoot at thee no more.
--Dryden. -
To make the peculiar cry of an owl.
The clamorous owl that nightly hoots.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. The sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound vb. (present participle of hoot English)
Usage examples of "hooting".
Soon they were all displaying ferociously, hooting and scraping musk over their long tails.
Solo was immersed beneath a blanket of hooting, jostling, inexperienced assailants.
And it was waged in a silence broken only by gasps of weariness or pain: There was none of the screeching and hooting that would normally have accompanied an attack by two juniors on a dominant male.
Their mournful hooting, made with inflatable skin sacs on their great horny snouts, echoed from the walls of ice to the south.
He threw himself back and forth around the line of trees, drumming with open palms on tree trunks, ripping off thin branches and shaking them so their leaves cascaded around him, screeching and hooting the while.
Just as yesterday he roused the troop by crashing into their nests, hooting, kicking, and slapping.
So he displayed again, drumming, vaulting, and hooting, and went back to the follow-me routine.
Deeply unhappy, they pushed, jostled, and slapped, hooting and screeching at each other.
She was surrounded by screeching and hooting, and fists pounded at her back and head.
The males also did a great deal of displaying, hooting, aggressive leaping to and fro.
But in the silence of New Pangaea their whoops and hooting cries echoed from the bare rocks, and as far as could be seen they were the only large creatures moving, anywhere.
And back on the flat, the centaurs again were hooting with mocking laughter.
The chimpanzee played under the table while the bargaining sessions went on, climbing the legs, dropping back to the floor, rolling around and hooting softly.
She whirled about on the lawn like a dervish, hooting and screeching, her pink mouth open.
And then she would sit mere for an hour or more, waiting to be fed, fretting and hooting and chattering away.