hooting

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of hoot

   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, […].

   1958 February 28, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 90

plural hootings

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

   Popanilla is found "not guilty, and kicked out of court, amidst the hootings of the mob, without a stain upon his reputation."

   1828, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,

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   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.

   1818, John Franklin, The Journey to the Polar Sea

   The hootings of this unhappy gentleman may generally be heard in the still evenings, when the rooks are all at rest; and I have often listened to them of a moonlight night with a kind of mysterious gratification.

   1877, Washington Irving, Bracebridge Hall