toot

«toot» in Mova's school dictionary: to make a short, high sound with a horn or whistle — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (toot, toots, tooted, tooting); noun (a toot, toots)

meaning for a pupil

1) To toot is to make a short, high sound with a horn or whistle. tree →

2) A toot is one such short sound. tree →

3) «Toot your own horn» (US) means to boast about yourself (UK: «blow your own trumpet»). tree →

4) (informal, child talk) Toot can mean to pass wind (fart) — a jokey, polite word. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life cars, trains and boats toot their horns. In road safety, drivers toot to warn others. In stories a train «toots» as it leaves. Children use «toot» as a silly, polite word for passing wind. Phrases: «toot the horn», «toot-toot».

examples

• The train tooted as it left the station. tree →
• Dad gave a little toot of the horn to say goodbye. tree →
• The boat tooted twice. tree →
• «Toot toot!» went the toy train. tree →
• The driver tooted to warn the cyclist. tree →
• Stop tooting your own horn and let others talk. tree →
• My little brother giggled and said someone tooted. tree →

note

Past: tooted. A toot is short and light; a «honk» is louder. The wind meaning is childish slang, fine at home but not in formal writing.

In the corpora

• "Toot" is a childish, joking word for a fart.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «toot» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.