toot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuːt/
ipa: /ˈtut/
ipa: /ˈtʊt/
rhymes: -uːt
rhymes: -ʊt
Forms: form: toots
form: tooting
form: tooted
form: tooted
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: Now rise up, Master Huddypeke, Your tail toteth out behind.
ref: 1519, John Rastell, Four Elements:
glosses: To stand out, or be prominent.
examples: text: In the court, in the noblemen's houses, at every merchant's house, those Observants were spying, tooting, and looking, watching and prying, what they might hear or see against the see of Rome.
ref: 1550 November 9, Hugh Latimer, A Sermon preached at Stamford:
text: Long wandering up and downe the land, With bowe and bolts in either hand, For birds in bushes tooting.
ref: 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender:
glosses: To peep; to look narrowly.
related: word: tout
glosses: To see; to spy.
examples: text: The island rang, as yet, with the tooting horns and rattling teams of mail-coaches.
ref: 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes:
text: A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 205:
synonyms: poop#Verb
glosses: To produce the noise of a horn or whistle.
examples: text: "In the morning, we get deer on the line. We tend not to 'toot' them because it seems that only makes them more likely to run across the track."
ref: 2025 August 20, Paul Clifton, “A driver's eye view of East West Rail”, in RAIL, number 1042, page 33:
glosses: To cause a horn or whistle to produce a noise.
synonyms: word: badger
word: blow off
word: break ass
word: break wind
word: crepitate
word: curmur
word: cut one loose
word: cut the cheese
word: drop a bomb
word: fart
word: flatulate
word: grunt
word: guff
word: let fluffy off the chain
word: let one go
word: let one rip
word: pass gas
word: pass wind
word: poop
word: poot
word: pump
word: rip ass
word: rip one
word: step on a duck
word: step on a frog
word: toot
word: trump
glosses: To flatulate.
coordinate_terms: quack
pipe
glosses: Of a queen bee, to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
glosses: To go on a drinking binge.
examples: text: I had graduated from the simple tooting cocaine up my nose to smoking it, which was a completely different experience and animal.
ref: 2008, Robert L. Glover, Street Corner Symphony: An American Story, page 65:
glosses: To snort (a recreational drug).
examples: text: Only want to toot in the Animal Rights instance? You can create an account there and do that.
ref: 2017 April 5, Jack Morse, “Bye, Twitter. All the cool kids are migrating to Mastodon”, in Mashable Australia:
text: One alternative to Fist is Mastodon, which looks and behaves a bit like Twitter (you don’t tweet, you “toot”).
ref: 2018 February 8, Marie Boran, “Why tweet when you can toot on Mastodon”, in The Irish Times:
text: Each instance has its own administrator and its own code of conduct, so make sure you read up before you toot.
ref: 2018 August 24, Beth Skwarecki, “A Beginner's Guide to Mastodon”, in Lifehacker:
qualifier: social media
glosses: To post a message on a Mastodon instance.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from toot (verb)
word: darn tootin'
sense: Terms derived from toot (verb)
word: subtoot
sense: Terms derived from toot (verb)
word: tooter
sense: Terms derived from toot (verb)
word: toot one's own horn