toot

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They go toot, toot, and you got to hop off to one side in the mud or the ditch, it don't matter to them.

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  1. intransitive verb To sound a horn or whistle in short blasts.
  2. intransitive verb To make the sound of a horn or whistle blown in short blasts or a sound resembling it.
  3. intransitive verb Slang To snort cocaine.
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  • A whistle-toot, blowing three times, called for relative silence. —  Death Gate Cycle 1 - Dragon Wing
  • Show me a cow that doesn't toot, then I'm interested. —  Latest Articles
  • Isn't there a way to get the engineers to reduce the toot-toot-toot-toot-toot to just a toot-toot? —  The Newton Kansan Home RSS
  • He urges anyone who would like to see this happen to talk to city commissioners or the city manager, and maybe the toot-toot-toot-toot-tooting will be a thing of the past. —  The Newton Kansan Home RSS
  • On India's roads, if it goes forward, and has a toot-toot, it's good to go.
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  1. Ultimately of imitative origin.

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  1. Early modern English also tote; also dial. tote, tout (see tout), and (Scots) teet; from Middle English toten, from Anglo-Saxon tōtian, project, stick out; cf. Middle Dutch tote, tuyt =Old High German tuttā, tutā, tutto, tuto, tutti, Middle High German tutte, tute, a teat; Icelandic tūta, a peak, prominence (tota, peak of a shoe), =Swedish tut, a point, muzzle, =Danish tud, a spout; the orig. sense seems to have been ‘project,’ hence ‘put one's head out, look all about, peep,’ and so ‘seek for custom,’ etc. See tout, and cf. tut.
  2. Early modern English also tout, tote, rarely tute; from Middle English *tuten (in the derived noun tute, toute), prob. from Middle Dutch tuyten, Dutch tuiten, also toeten =. Middle Low German tuten, sound a horn, =Old High German diozan, Middle High German diezen, make a loud noise, =Icelandic thjōta, whistle as the wind, sough, resound, =Anglo-Saxon theótan, howl, make a noise, =Swedish tjuta, howl, =Danish tude, howl, blow a horn; cf. Dutch toet-horen, a bugle-horn, Middle High German duz, masculine, noise, Icelandic thytr, noise, whistling wind, Gothic (Moesogothic) thuthaurn, horn, trumpet; perhaps orig. imitative, as the later forms are regarded.
  3. from toot, v.
  4. Origin uncertain; cf. tout, n.
 

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