toot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuːt/
ipa: /ˈtut/
ipa: /ˈtʊt/
rhymes: -uːt
rhymes: -ʊt
Forms: form: toots
Etymology: Probably onomatopoeic in origin. Compare Dutch toeteren (“to blow a horn”), German tuten, Swedish tuta, Danish tude.
Noun sense 7 ("Mastodon post") and verb sense 10 ("to post on Mastodon") are influenced by tweet (“Twitter post”).
Senses: examples: text: He gave a little toot of the horn, to get their attention.
glosses: The noise of a horn or whistle.
glosses: A fart; flatus.
synonyms: word: benzoylmethylecgonine
word: blow
word: Bolivian marching powder
word: booger sugar
word: boots
word: California corn flakes
word: charlie
word: ching
word: coke
word: corinne
word: crystals
word: flake
word: girl
word: hard white
word: marching powder
word: nose candy
word: nose powder
word: party powder
word: powder
word: rock
word: rocks
word: slim
word: sniff
word: snow
word: snuff
word: toot
word: wash
word: white
word: white girl
word: white lady
word: yay
word: yayo
word: yola
glosses: Cocaine.
examples: text: So he took a toot. A couple of days later he did another, then another. Soon Harry was using more coke than he had done in his whole life.
ref: 1981, New York Magazine, volume 14, number 35, page 30:
glosses: A portion of cocaine that a person snorts.
glosses: A spree of drunkenness.
examples: text: I'm not paying fifty pounds for this load of old toot!
synonyms: word: cultch
word: crap
word: debris
word: dreck
word: drek
word: garbage
word: junk
word: litter
word: pelf
word: piece of crap
word: piece of garbage
word: piece of shit
word: pile of crap
word: pile of shit
word: piece of trash
word: rubbish
word: refuse
word: roughage
word: service item
word: shit
word: stuff
word: trash
word: waste
glosses: Rubbish; tat.
examples: text: As for layout, Mastodon feels a little like TweetDeck, with columns for your toots, toots from the people you follow, your mentions, and (unlike Twitter) a timeline of all public posts being shared by every user on the platform.
ref: 2017 April 4, Madison Malone Kircher, “What the Heck Is Mastodon, and Why Is Everyone Talking About It?”, in New York Magazine:
text: Interestingly, Mastodon offers a bit more in that aspect for toots can be 500 characters long.
ref: 2017 April 5, “Mastodon is here; will you stop tweeting and start tooting?”, in The Indian Express:
text: Mastodon users can send toots with 500 characters as opposed to Twitter's 140. But that's not the only difference. Individual toots can be marked as private, meaning you don't have to choose between a public or a private account like on Twitter.
ref: 2017 April 5, Jack Morse, “Bye, Twitter. All the cool kids are migrating to Mastodon”, in Mashable Australia:
text: So if I follow Nick, his toots (yep, they're called toots) will show up in wandering.shop's federated timeline.
ref: 2018 August 24, Beth Skwarecki, “A Beginner's Guide to Mastodon”, in Lifehacker:
qualifier: social media
glosses: A message on the social networking software Mastodon.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from toot (noun)
word: on a toot
sense: Terms derived from toot (noun)
word: subtoot
sense: Terms derived from toot (noun)
word: tinker's toot