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Definition of Give a hoot
1. Verb. Show no concern or interest; always used in the negative. "She doesn't give a damn about her job"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Give A Hoot
Literary usage of Give a hoot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"Actually this word is rather rare and is today limited to the expression no se
me da un bledo 'I don't give a hoot', so that possibly it did not suffer ..."
2. The Shameless Diary of an Explorer by Robert Dunn (1907)
"But no, I see with only a week's grub, and us on the wrong side of the mountains,
he doesn't give a hoot about his pack train, and just starts up onto the ..."
3. Roma Beata; Letters from the Eternal City: Letters from the Eternal City by Maud Howe Elliott (1904)
"... OLD AND NEW ROME — PALESTRINA PALAZZO Rusncucci, ROME, 1899. SUNDAY afternoon
we went over to hear vespers at St. Peter's (the music was Palestrina's). ..."
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