Word Meanings - HOOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

sharply, fr. Sw. hut interj., begone! cf. also W. hwt off! off with 1. To cry out or shout in contempt. Matrons and girls shall hoot at thee no more. Dryden. 2. To make the peculiar cry of an owl. The clamorous owl that nightly hoots. Shak.

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• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• NIGHTLY
  At night; every night.
• SHALLOP
  A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails.
• SHOUTER
  One who shouts.
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• CLAMOROUS
  Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness,
• INTERJECTIONALIZE
  To convert into, or to use as, an interjection. Earle.
• CONTEMPTIBLY
  In a contemptible manner.
• CONTEMPTUOUSLY
  In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.
• BEGONE
  Go away; depart; get you gone.
• INTERJECTIONALLY
  In an interjectional manner. G. Eliot.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• CONTEMPTUOUS
  Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. A proud, contemptious behavior. Hammond. Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews.
• SHALLOON
  A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.
• CONTEMPT
  Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• CONTEMPTIBLENESS
  The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• SHOUT
  1. To utter with a shout; to cry; -- sometimes with out; as, to shout, or to shout out, a man's name. 2. To treat with shouts or clamor. Bp. Hall.
• SHALLOW-WAISTED
  Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
• FORTNIGHTLY
  Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication. -- adv.
• WOE-BEGONE
  Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful. Chaucer. So woe-begone was he with pains of love. Fairfax.
• WASHOUT
  The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.