Hooting

//ˈhuːtɪŋ// noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound.

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of hoot form-of, gerund, participle, present

    "Fritz Lang in Hollywood has remade the French "La Bête Humaine" story, setting the drama, a little coldly, among the great hooting diesels of the Middle West routes, […]."

Synonyms

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banterbanteringderisiveflippancyflippantfooling

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"In a scary scene, it never fails that there is either an owl hooting or wolves howling under the full moon."

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