toot Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a blast of a horn
  2. noun revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party
    carouse; carousal; bender; booze-up.
  3. verb make a loud noise
    beep; claxon; blare; honk.
    • The horns of the taxis blared

WordNet

Toot intransitive verb
Etymology
OE. toten, AS. totian to project; hence, to peep out.
Definitions
  1. To stand out, or be prominent. Obs. Howell.
  2. To peep; to look narrowly. Obs. Latimer.
    For birds in bushes tooting. Spenser.
Toot transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To see; to spy. Obs. P. Plowman.
Toot intransitive verb
Etymology
Cf. D. toeten to blow a horn, G. tuten, Sw.tuta, Dan. tude; probably of imitative origin.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Tooted ; present participle & verbal noun Tooting
Definitions
  1. 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. "A tooting horn." Howell.
    Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches. Thackeray.
Toot transitive verb
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913