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Definition of Hooty
1. sounding like the cry of an owl [adj HOOTIER, HOOTIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hooty
Literary usage of Hooty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annals of Roger de Hoveden: Comprising the History of England and of by Roger of Hoveden, Roger, Henry Thomas Riley (1853)
"These having retired, congratulating themselves on their hooty and their wicked
deeds, I shall recount what misfortunes the succeeding year brought. ..."
2. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"The privilege of paying ihr the horse and pistols is all that would he ours.
The hooty would he employed in ..."
3. Mother West Wind's Animal Friends by Thornton Waldo Burgess (1912)
"Suddenly he remembered hooty the Owl, and that hooty cannot see well in the daytime.
Very likely hooty would think that the crows had become tired of ..."
4. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1827)
"... who had escaped with their hooty, and as yet no traces ... in the perpetration,
and partaken of the hooty with his unhappy hoy; he proceeded with ..."
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