toot

English

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Etymology 1

Probably onomatopoeic in origin. Compare Dutch toeteren (“to blow a horn”) and German tuten (“to blow a horn”).

Alternative forms

• tout (in some verb senses only)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuːt/
• IPA^(key): /tʊt/ (in sense of "rubbish, tat")

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uːt
• Rhymes: -ʊt

Noun

toot (countable and uncountable, plural toots)

1. The noise of a horn or whistle.

   He gave a little toot of the horn, to get their attention.

2. (by extension, informal) A fart; flatus.
3. (uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
4. (countable, slang) A portion of cocaine that a person snorts.
   • 1981, New York Magazine, volume 14, number 35, page 30:

     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.

5. (informal) A spree of drunkenness.
6. (informal, uncountable, pronounced /tʊt/) Rubbish; tat.

   I'm not paying fifty pounds for this load of old toot!

8. (social media) A message on the social networking software Mastodon.
   • 2017 April 4, Madison Malone Kircher, “What the Heck Is Mastodon, and Why Is Everyone Talking About It?”, in New York Magazine:

     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.

   • 2017 April 5, “Mastodon is here; will you stop tweeting and start tooting?”, in The Indian Express:

     Interestingly, Mastodon offers a bit more in that aspect for toots can be 500 characters long.

   • 2017 April 5, Jack Morse, “Bye, Twitter. All the cool kids are migrating to Mastodon”, in Mashable Australia:

     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.

   • 2018 August 24, Beth Skwarecki, “A Beginner's Guide to Mastodon”, in Lifehacker:

     So if I follow Nick, his toots (yep, they're called toots) will show up in wandering.shop's federated timeline.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

toot (third-person singular simple present toots, present participle tooting, simple past and past participle tooted)

2. To stand out, or be prominent.
   • 1519, John Rastell, Four Elements:

     Now rise up, Master Huddypeke, Your tail toteth out behind.

4. To peep; to look narrowly.
   • November 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, A Sermon preached at Stamford

     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.

   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender:

     Long wandering up and downe the land, With bowe and bolts in either hand, For birds in bushes tooting.

6. To see; to spy.
8. (slang) To flatulate.
10. To make the sound of a horn or whistle.
    • 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes:

      The island rang, as yet, with the tooting horns and rattling teams of mail-coaches.

    • 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:

      A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run.

12. To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound.
14. (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.

    Coordinate terms: quack, pipe

16. (slang) To go on a drinking binge.
18. (slang) To snort (a recreational drug).
    • 2008, Robert L. Glover, Street Corner Symphony: An American Story, page 65:

      I had graduated from the simple tooting cocaine up my nose to smoking it, which was a completely different experience and animal.

19. (Internet) To post a message on a Mastodon instance (a self-hosted version of the networking software).
    • 2017 April 5, “Mastodon is here; will you stop tweeting and start tooting?”, in The Indian Express:

      (see title)

    • 2017 April 5, Jack Morse, “Bye, Twitter. All the cool kids are migrating to Mastodon”, in Mashable Australia:

      Only want to toot in the Animal Rights instance? You can create an account there and do that.

    • 2018 February 8, Marie Boran, “Why tweet when you can toot on Mastodon”, in The Irish Times:

      One alternative to Fist is Mastodon, which looks and behaves a bit like Twitter (you don’t tweet, you “toot”).

    • 2018 August 24, Beth Skwarecki, “A Beginner's Guide to Mastodon”, in Lifehacker:

      Each instance has its own administrator and its own code of conduct, so make sure you read up before you toot.

Synonyms

• (to fart): See Thesaurus:flatulate
• (to sound a trumpet etc.): poop (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps a contraction of toilet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʊt/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʊt

Noun

toot (plural toots)

1. (Australia, slang) A toilet.

See also

• toot plant
• toot suite, toot sweet

Anagrams

• Otto, Toto, otto, toto