Dictionary Entry
hoot
hoot is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cry out or shout in contempt. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 6 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To cry out or shout in contempt.
- 2intransitive verb
To make the peculiar cry of an owl.
- 3transitive verb
To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
- 4noun
A derisive cry or shout.
- 5noun
The cry of an owl.
- 6noun
something of little value
"his promise is not worth a damn"
"not worth one red cent"
- 7noun
a loud raucous cry (as of an owl)
- 8noun
a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
- 9verb
to utter a loud clamorous shout
"the toughs and blades of the city hoot and bang their drums, drink arak, play dice, and dance"
- 10verb
utter the characteristic sound of owls
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