OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 14470

hoot

/huːt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ulular
To make a hoo, the cry of an owl.
Outside an owl was hooting most dismally in the darkness. The villa was on a by-road, and there was no human sound to link them up with life.
The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders / At our quaint spirits.