hooting

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of hootpresent participle and gerund of hoot

   Fritz Lang in Hollywood has remade the French "La Bête Humaine" story, setting the drama, a little coldly, among the great hooting diesels of the Middle West routes, […].

noun

1. 1

   The sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound.

   One small species, which is known to them by its melancholy nocturnal hootings (for as it never appears in the day few even of the hunters have ever seen it) is particularly ominous.

   Popanilla is found "not guilty, and kicked out of court, amidst the hootings of the mob, without a stain upon his reputation."

   The hootings of this unhappy gentleman may generally be heard in the still evenings, when the rooks are all at rest; and I have often listened to them of a moonlight night with a kind of mysterious gratification.

Forms

plural

hootings