whoot

present singular third person whoots · participle present whooting · participle past whooted · past whooted

1. obsoleteTo hoot.

   I once had the courage to propose to her the endurance of another vigil; she set her hands to her mouth, and 'whooted out whoots three.'

   1887, Allan Cunningham, Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, Honest Man John Ochiltree

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   which Birds for their blindnesse (for they see weakly in the day) and for their cry and whooting, wee called the Sea Owle; they will bite cruelly with their crooked Bills

   1609 July, William Strachey, Esquire, “A most dreadful tempest […] ”, in A true reportory of the wracke, and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates Knight; […]