whoot

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.45 in modern English

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verb

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"which Birds for their blindnesse (for they see weakly in the day) and for their cry and whooting, wee called the Sea Owle; they will bite cruelly with their crooked Bills"
"I once had the courage to propose to her the endurance of another vigil; she set her hands to her mouth, and 'whooted out whoots three.'"

See hoot.

whoots (present, singular) whooting (participle, present) whooted (participle, past) whooted (past)

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