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# toot

«toot» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make a short, high sound with a horn or whistle** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (toot, toots, tooted, tooting); noun (a toot, toots)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To toot is to make a short, high sound with a horn or whistle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toot/#m1)

2) A toot is one such short sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toot/#m2)

3) «Toot your own horn» (US) means to boast about yourself (UK: «blow your own trumpet»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toot/#m3)

4) (informal, child talk) Toot can mean to pass wind (fart) — a jokey, polite word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toot/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life cars, trains and boats toot their horns. In road safety, drivers toot to warn others. In stories a train «toots» as it leaves. Children use «toot» as a silly, polite word for passing wind. Phrases: «toot the horn», «toot-toot».

### examples

- The train tooted as it left the station. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toot/#x1)
- Dad gave a little toot of the horn to say goodbye. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toot/#x2)
- The boat tooted twice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toot/#x3)
- «Toot toot!» went the toy train. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toot/#x4)
- The driver tooted to warn the cyclist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toot/#x5)
- Stop tooting your own horn and let others talk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toot/#x6)
- My little brother giggled and said someone tooted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toot/#x7)

### note

Past: tooted. A toot is short and light; a «honk» is louder. The wind meaning is childish slang, fine at home but not in formal writing.

### In the corpora

- ["Toot" is a childish, joking word for a fart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/7-wind-sick-and-runs/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «toot» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toot/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.