toot

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

toot, v. i. [OE. toten, AS. totian to project; hence, to peep out.].

•  To stand out, or be prominent.  Howell.  [1913 Webster]
•  To peep; to look narrowly.  Latimer.  [1913 Webster]

  "For birds in bushes tooting."  [1913 Webster]

toot, v. t. 

 To see; to spy.  P. Plowman.  [1913 Webster]

toot, v. i. [Cf. D. toeten to blow a horn, G. tuten, Sw. tuta, Dan. tude; probably of imitative origin.].

 To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown.  Howell.  [1913 Webster]
"Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches."  [1913 Webster]

toot, v. t. 

 To cause to sound, as a horn, the note being modified at the beginning and end as if by pronouncing the letter t; to blow; to sound.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

toot, n. & v.
--n.
1 a short sharp sound as made by a horn, trumpet, or whistle.
2 US sl. cocaine or a snort (see SNORT n. 4) of cocaine.
--v.
1 tr. sound (a horn etc.) with a short sharp sound.
2 intr. give out such a sound.

Derivative

tooter n.

toot, n. Austral. sl. a lavatory.

Etymology

20th c.: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

toot

advertise, announce, annunciate, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bagpipe, bat, bay, beep, bell, bender, binge, blare, blast, blat, blow, blow a horn, blow the horn, bout, bray, broadcast, bugle, bust, carillon, carousal, carouse, celebration, clarion, compotation, debauch, disseminate, doodle, double-tongue, drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, escapade, fanfare, fife, fling, flourish of trumpets, flute, guzzle, honk, jag, lark, lip, orgy, peal, pipe, ploy, potation, proclaim, pub-crawl, publish, randan, randy, revel, shriek, sound, sound a tattoo, sound taps, spree, squeal, symposium, tantara, tantarara, taps, tarantara, tattoo, tear, tongue, tootle, triple-tongue, trumpet, trumpet blast, trumpet call, tweedle, wassail, whistle, wind, wind the horn, wingding