toot

noun
/ˈtuːt/UK/ˈtut/US/ˈtʊt/

Etymology

Probably onomatopoeic in origin. Compare Dutch toeteren (“to blow a horn”), German tuten, Swedish tuta, Danish tude. Noun etymology 1, noun sense 7 ("Mastodon post") and verb etymology 1, verb sense 10 ("to post on Mastodon") are influenced by tweet (“Twitter post”).

  1. derived from tude
  2. derived from tuta
  3. derived from tuten
  4. derived from toeteren — “to blow a horn

Definitions

  1. The noise of a horn or whistle.

    • He gave a little toot of the horn, to get their attention.
  2. A fart

    A fart; flatus.

  3. Cocaine.

  4. + 15 more definitions
    1. A portion of cocaine that a person snorts.

      • 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.
    2. A spree of drunkenness.

    3. Rubbish

      Rubbish; tat.

      • I'm not paying fifty pounds for this load of old toot!
    4. A message on the social networking software Mastodon.

      • 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.
      • Interestingly, Mastodon offers a bit more in that aspect for toots can be 500 characters long.
    5. To stand out, or be prominent.

      • Now rise up, Master Huddypeke, Your tail toteth out behind.
    6. To peep

      To peep; to look narrowly.

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

      To see; to spy.

    8. To produce the noise of a horn or whistle.

      • The island rang, as yet, with the tooting horns and rattling teams of mail-coaches.
      • A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run.
    9. To cause a horn or whistle to produce a noise.

      • "In the morning, we get deer on the line. We tend not to 'toot' them because it seems that only makes them more likely to run across the track."
    10. To flatulate.

    11. Of a queen bee, to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.

    12. To go on a drinking binge.

    13. To snort (a recreational drug).

      • I had graduated from the simple tooting cocaine up my nose to smoking it, which was a completely different experience and animal.
    14. To post a message on a Mastodon instance.

      • Only want to toot in the Animal Rights instance? You can create an account there and do that.
      • One alternative to Fist is Mastodon, which looks and behaves a bit like Twitter (you don’t tweet, you “toot”).
      • Each instance has its own administrator and its own code of conduct, so make sure you read up before you toot.
    15. A toilet.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for toot. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA