hooter

名词 n.
/ˈhuː.tə(ɹ)/    /ˈhu.tɚ/|[ˈhu.ɾɚ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who hoots.
  2. The horn in a motor vehicle.
  3. A siren or steam whistle, especially one in a factory and used to indicate the beginning or the end of a working day or shift. UK
    — Suddenly, far down and beyond the toun there came a screech as the morning grew, a screech like an hungered beast in pain. The hooters were blowing in the Segget Mills.
  4. A nose, especially a large one. slang
    — Aye, it may be a joke to you, but it's his nose. He can't help having a hideous great hooter! And his poor little head, trembling under the weight of it!
  5. An owl.
  6. A woman's breast. US,especially,plural-normally,slang
  7. A penis. slang
    — There, nestled in one of her gloved palms was a massive, blue-veined hooter with a pus-filled bump on it the size of a pecan. It was his hooter and his pus-filled bump. ¶ “You ole rascal,” she said, and gently lowered his dick between his legs.
  8. A large cannabis cigarette. slang
  9. The tiniest amount; a whit or jot. dated
    — G.G. understood that I meant the licence, and said he didn't care a hooter about failing his driving test.

词形变化

hooters plural

词汇关系

词源

Etymology tree
English hoot
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English hooter
From hoot + -er.
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