• n. 鳴響；嘲罵聲；汽笛響聲
• vi. 鳴響；大聲叫囂
• vt. 轟趕；呵斥
• n. (Hoot)人名；(芬)霍特

擬聲詞，模仿貓頭鷹叫聲，后也用于指喇叭叫。比較honk.

hoot (v.)

"to call or shout in disapproval or scorn," c. 1600, probably related to or a variant of Middle English houten, huten "to shout, call out" (c. 1200), probably ultimately imitative. First used of bird cries, especially that of the owl, mid-15c. Related: Hooted; hooting. As a noun from mid-15c. Meaning "a laugh, something funny" is first recorded 1942. Slang sense of "smallest amount or particle" (the hoot you don't give when you don't care) is from 1891.

"A dod blasted ole fool!" answered the captain, who, till now, had been merely an amused on-looker. "Ye know all this rumpus wont do nobuddy a hoot o' good--not a hoot." ["Along Traverse Shores," Traverse City, Michigan, 1891]

Hooter in the same sense is from 1839.

HOOTER. Probably a corruption of iota. Common in New York in such phrases as "I don't care a hooter for him." "This note ain't worth a hooter." [John Russell Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1877]

1. Michael Fish is my favourite. He's a hoot, a real character.

我最喜歡邁克爾·菲什。他滑稽逗趣，是個實實在在的人物。

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2. I can be very rude to motorists who hoot at me.

對那些朝我按喇叭的司機我會很不客氣。

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3. They just don't give a hoot.

他們根本毫不在乎。

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4. I never hoot my horn when I pick a girl up for a date.

我開車接女孩出去約會時從不按喇叭。

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5. Mortlake strode on, ignoring the car, in spite of a further warning hoot.

莫特萊克繼續大步前行，不理會那輛汽車，盡管它又鳴喇叭警告。

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