Read full poem →thrust their cowls.
The hoot of the steamers on the Thames is plain.
Dictionary Entry
A derisive cry or shout.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. hootowl hootgibson hoothoot owlhoot owlshoot real
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Poetry examples for “hoot”
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Read full poem →A hundred just men up, and arm'd but with a frown,
May hoot a hundred thousand false loons down,
Or drive them any way like geese.
Read full poem →*380. That hoot, cold, hevy, light, [and] moist and dreye, &c.--B. iii. pr.
11. 98-103.
Read full poem →Do think within their hearts they'll get them all
And hoot and drive them from their graceless waste
As though there wa'n't a cowslip peep to spare.
Read full poem →Willy willy willy wah HOO!
Hoot, toot, hoot, toot,
Whoop whoop whoop whoop,
Read full poem →She pours the owls upon us:
They hoot with horrid noise
And eat the naughty mousie-girls