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hoot

/hoot/US // hut //UK // (huːt) //

叫嚣,鸣叫,叫喊声,叫嚣着

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cry out or shout, especially in disapproval or derision.
    • : to utter the cry characteristic of an owl.
    • : to utter a similar sound.
    • : Chiefly British. to blow a horn or whistle; toot.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to assail with shouts of disapproval or derision: The fans hooted the umpire.
    • : to drive out, off, or away by hooting.
    • : to express in hoots: The crowd hooted its disagreement with the speaker.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the cry of an owl.
    • : any similar sound, as an inarticulate shout.
    • : a cry or shout, especially of disapproval or derision.
    • : British. a horn, siren, or whistle, especially a factory whistle.
    • : Informal. the least bit of concern, interest, or thought; trifle: His religion doesn't matter a hoot to me.
    • : Slang. an extremely funny person, situation, or event: Your cousin is such a hoot!

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Examples

  • Now there’ll be this big historical marker, which I think is just a hoot.

  • You might hear the hoot of an owl, the swoosh of a bat’s wings, the croaking of frogs, the sawing of crickets, or even just the wind whispering through grass or trees.

  • Mager initially had made hoots and sounds like those of loon chicks in hopes that would attract the bird.

  • Just before sunrise, we were woken by a cacophony of hoots and realized that every single one of those cacti was home to an owl.

  • Hooters is cleverly asking me to “Give a Hoot” about breast cancer.

  • Lawrence is a freaking hoot in American Hustle, who takes her Big Scenes and sets them on fire.

  • I thought you were a hoot on Community as the lawyer for the estate of Pierce.

  • The first four letters in hootenanny spell hoot -- and The Seeger Sessions was fun -- with a purpose.

  • The Explosion at the Wig Factory was about as big of a hoot as you can comfortably call a tragedy like an explosion.

  • Now men laughed at him, pointed to him with their fingers, and made their children mock and hoot the penniless insolvent.

  • And there was music in all the saloons and restaurants; it rose and fell with the noise of the tin horn and the hoot of the happy.

  • When the owls beat their wings and gave the mating call and hoot, it was like a foam of noise rising over a river of silence.

  • The soft hoot of a little owl came through the dusk, and between its calls the men's voices rose and fell.

  • The owl, whose matin hoot announces the appearance of the sun, had already given its melancholy note.