Toot (?), v. i. [OE. toten, AS. totian to project; hence, to peep out.] [Written also tout.]
1.
To stand out, or be prominent.
[Obs.]
Howell.
2.
To peep; to look narrowly.
[Obs.]
Latimer.
For birds in bushes tooting.
Spenser.
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Toot, v. t.
To see; to spy.
[Obs.]
P. Plowman.
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Toot, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tooted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tooting.] [Cf. D. toeten to blow a horn, G. tuten, Sw.tuta, Dan. tude; probably of imitative origin.]
To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown.
"A
tooting horn."
Howell.
Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches.
Thackeray.
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Toot, v. t.
To cause to sound, as a horn, the note being modified at the beginning and end as if by pronouncing the letter t; to blow; to sound.
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