What does "toot" mean?
The noise of a horn or whistle.
Toot
/ˈtuːt/ noun, verb, slang
noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: The noise of a horn or whistle.
- Grammar: toot is listed as noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: advertise, announce, annunciate, bacchanal.
- Useful contrasts: big drink, downplay, humility.
- Usage evidence: You need to toot your own horn.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The noise of a horn or whistle. countable
"He gave a little toot of the horn, to get their attention."
- 2 A toilet. Australia, slang
- 3 revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party wordnet
- 4 A fart; flatus. broadly, countable, informal
- 5 a blast of a horn wordnet
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- 6 Cocaine. slang, uncountable
- 7 A portion of cocaine that a person snorts. countable, slang
"So he took a toot. A couple of days later he did another, then another. Soon Harry was using more coke than he had done in his whole life."
- 8 A spree of drunkenness. countable, informal, uncountable
- 9 Rubbish; tat. informal, uncountable
"I'm not paying fifty pounds for this load of old toot!"
- 10 A message on the social networking software Mastodon. countable
"As for layout, Mastodon feels a little like TweetDeck, with columns for your toots, toots from the people you follow, your mentions, and (unlike Twitter) a timeline of all public posts being shared by every user on the platform."
Verb
- 1 To stand out, or be prominent.
"Now rise up, Master Huddypeke, Your tail toteth out behind."
- 2 make a strident noise wordnet
- 3 To peep; to look narrowly.
"In the court, in the noblemen's houses, at every merchant's house, those Observants were spying, tooting, and looking, watching and prying, what they might hear or see against the see of Rome."
- 4 To see; to spy.
- 5 To produce the noise of a horn or whistle.
"The island rang, as yet, with the tooting horns and rattling teams of mail-coaches."
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- 6 To cause a horn or whistle to produce a noise.
""In the morning, we get deer on the line. We tend not to 'toot' them because it seems that only makes them more likely to run across the track.""
- 7 To flatulate. slang
- 8 Of a queen bee, to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development. intransitive
- 9 To go on a drinking binge. slang
- 10 To snort (a recreational drug). slang
"I had graduated from the simple tooting cocaine up my nose to smoking it, which was a completely different experience and animal."
- 11 To post a message on a Mastodon instance.
"Only want to toot in the Animal Rights instance? You can create an account there and do that."
Example
"You need to toot your own horn."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "toot"?
Common synonyms include: advertise, announce, annunciate, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian.
How do you use "toot" in a sentence?
You need to toot your own horn.
How do you pronounce "toot"?
Pronounced /ˈtuːt/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
Probably onomatopoeic in origin. Compare Dutch toeteren (“to blow a horn”), German tuten, Swedish tuta, Danish tude. Noun etymology 1 sense 7 ("Mastodon post") and verb etymology 1 sense 10 ("to post on Mastodon") are influenced by tweet (“Twitter post”).
Etymology 2
Perhaps a contraction of toilet.