单词 | tooting |
释义 | tootingn.1 Now dialect. The action of toot v.1; spying, peeping, looking. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] > peeping tooting?1553 pinking1608 peeking1637 twiring1728 out-peeping1818 ?1553 Respublica (1952) i. iii. 6 Theare was suche tooting suche looking and suche priinge. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Osolamento, a spying, a peeping, a tooting. Compounds attributive as tooting-glass n. looking-glass. tooting-hill n. = toot-hill n.; so tooting-hole, peep-hole; tooting-place, tooting-tower, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] > look-out place garret1340 tooting-towera1382 watch-house1482 watchtower1544 watch-stand1610 beacon1611 mount1612 belfry1631 lookout1662 mirador1672 lookout tower1748 toot1770 watch point1893 observation post1909 lookout station1928 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] > hole or window oillet1333 tooting-holea1382 tote-hole1561 peepholea1570 eyehole1655 eyelet1762 eyelet hole1774 eye-loop1803 Judas hole1858 peek-hole1867 oillet pane1873 squint1891 observation window1897 viewport1942 port1949 the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > look-out hill toot-hilla1382 tooting-hilla1382 toota1387 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] > look-out place > hill toot-hilla1382 tooting-hilla1382 toota1387 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > mirror > [noun] > looking-glass looking-glass1526 Venice glass1527 tooting-glassc1560 seeing-glass1565 girdle-glassa1652 Venice looking-glass1655 considering-glass1660 peeper1673 long glass1680 table glass1688 dressing glass1697 keeking-glassa1724 toilet glass1729 long mirror1793 swing-glass1809 hand glass1832 cheval-glass1836 psyche1838 tire-glass1844 tiring-glass1844 driving mirror1907 wing mirror1925 swing mirror1930 vanity mirror1959 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xxxi. 21 Ordeyne to thee a toting place. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. xxi. 8 Y stonde contynueli bi dai on the totyng place of the Lord. c1460 Med. Gramm. Speculare, a totynge hylle and a bekyne. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cv Thei with in the citee [sc. Orleans] perceiued well this totyng hole, and laied a pece of ordynaunce directly against the wyndowe. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Towtynge hoole to loke out at in a wall or wyndowe. 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos iv. L ij As dawning waxed white from tooting towres on hie. c1560 Gest Serm. in W. Dugdale Life (1840) 182 Senec..wryteth that tootyng glasses be found to know our selfes and to rule our lyfes by... O that we Christen men and women thus used our tootinge glasses. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Tooting-hole, a spyhole or loophole. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tootingn.2 The action of toot v.2; the sound made by blowing a horn or other wind-instrument. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of wind instruments blas?c1225 blastc1275 poopa1556 tooting1568 toota1598 too-too1812 tootling1821 too-tooing1843 tootle1850 tootle-te-tootle1855 toot-toot1883 toot-tootling1904 1568 Newe Comedie Iacob & Esau i. ii. sig. A.iijv Then maketh he with his Horne such tootyng and blowing. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 665 Another mercenary minstrell..kept a foolish and ridiculous tooting. 1634 J. Levett Ordering of Bees 30 You shall heare a touting in manner like the sounding of a Bewgle horne amongst the Bees. 1714 H. Nevill in Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 270 Will not admit of any sound by Blast as a Horn doth, but by the articulate Voice of tooting it will. 1880 W. Newton Serm. for Boys & Girls (1881) 410 Tootings innumerable from the steam whistle. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as tooting-horn, tooting-trumpet. ΚΠ 1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. xx. 75 It is ill making a silk purse of a sow's lug, or a touting-horn of a tod's tail. 1805 J. Nicol Poems I. 2 (note) (Jam.) A touting horn (the horn of an ox perforated at the small end) by blowing on which they made a loud..sound. 1889 W. G. Dickson Gleanings from Japan xiii. 251 The boy behind is provided with a small tooting-trumpet to warn other travellers on the road. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2021). tootingn.3 Drinking, toping; in †touting-ken (obsolete slang): a drinking-house. ΚΠ 1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Touting-ken, tavern-bar. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Touting-ken, a Tavern or Ale-house Bar. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019). tootingadj.1 Now dialect. Looking out, peeping, prying, spying; protruding, sprouting. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [adjective] steepc1000 tooting?c1225 strutting1387 prominent?1440 extant1540 eminent?1541 pouting1563 poking1566 out1576 egregious1578 promontory1579 out-pointed1585 buttinga1593 outjetting1598 perking1598 jettying1609 juttying1609 out-jutting1611 outstanding1611 upsticking1611 out-shooting1622 jutting1624 outgrowing1625 rank1625 toting1645 projectinga1652 porrected1653 protruded1654 protruding1654 upcast1658 protending1659 jettinga1661 raised1663 starting1680 emersed1686 exerted1697 projective1703 jet-out1709 exorbitant1715 sticking1715 foreright1736 poky1754 perked-up1779 salient1789 prouda1800 overdriven1812 extrusive1816 stand-up1818 shouldering1824 jutty1827 outflung1830 sticky-out1839 sticking-up1852 outreaching1853 protrusive1858 out-thrusting1869 stickout1884 protrudent1891 the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > [adjective] > prying tooting?c1225 snooping1924 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 41 For nabbe ȝe naut to nome..of totinde ancren. 1593 Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift (1876) 33 If there be any that hath a tooting head [of ‘horns’], and would not haue it sene, let him keepe it secretely to himselfe. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iii. xxxi. 109 Though perhaps he had never a shirt to his back, yet would he have a toting huge swelling ruff about his neck. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Geneust, nosed, or he that hath a great Nose, or a toting Nose. 1650 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Exact Hist. Late Revol. Naples i. 87 With a toting plume of feathers in his hat all white. 1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. vii. 19 A poor shallow-brain'd puppy, who..would have men to have a priviledg to change their Wives,..deserves of all other to wear a toting horn. 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. i. xxvi. 141 Rendring the Visage fiery, and in progress of time make those toting Copper-noses, as we generally express them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). tootingadj.2 1. That toots, as a horn, siren, etc. See also rootin' tootin' adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of horn > [adjective] tooting1652 honking1813 horny1869 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [adjective] > sound of wind instruments > sound of horn tooting1652 winding1735 1652 E. Benlowes Theophila xi. xxx. 197 Still to have toting Waits unseel thine Eyes. 1668 T. Shadwell Sullen Lovers i. 5 Those rogues that..upon their Toting Instruments make a more Hellish-Noise then they Do at a Play-house. 1909 Daily Chron. 16 Sept. 1/1 No tooting whistles signalled our departure. 2. U.S. slang. Used, usually with preceding adverb or adjective (as damn or variant), as a strong affirmative or intensive. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > [adjective] sickerc1100 bolda1300 surec1330 trist1340 certain1362 traista1400 tresta1400 ensurec1430 suredc1450 absolute1483 firm1483 resolute1501 assured1523 satisfied1533 unperplexed1558 unblanked1570 resolved1577 secure1578 clear1604 constant1611 ungravelled1611 confidenta1616 definitea1616 fearless1634 decretory1651 positive1658 unbrangled1671 cocksure1672 convinced1685 reliant1702 unbewildereda1807 positivistic1893 hensure1929 tooting1932 1932 Amer. Speech 7 338 You're damn tootin', emphatic affirmative. 1933 E. Caldwell God's Little Acre i. 12 ‘After the albino, Pa?’ Buck asked. ‘You're durn tooting, son,’ he said. 1952 B. Malamud Natural 36 You're plumb tootin' crazy. 1970 E. Berckman She asked for It xi. 134 You're goddam' tootin' I'm on that again. Y'say I've been prying, you admit there's something to pry into. 1981 G. McDonald Fletch & Widow Bradley xviii. 72 I got pregnant, when you said I wouldn't... You tol' me a tootin' lie. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.1a1382n.21568n.31676adj.1?c1225adj.21652 |
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