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# toot

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

«toot» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To toot is to make a short, high sound with a horn or whistle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toot/#m1)
2. A toot is one such short sound. [tree →](https://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toot/#m4)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «toot» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toot/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«toot» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/toot.html) on Mova free.