hoot

• n.さえずり；嘲り；サイレンコール
• vi. 鳴らす；叫ぶ
• vt. 追い払う；非難する
• n.（フート）人の名前；（フィン）フート

フクロウの鳴き声を模した擬音語で、後にラッパの鳴き声にも使われる。honkと比較。

hoot (v.)

"to call or shout in disapproval or scorn," c. 1600, probably related to or a variant of Middle English houten, huten "to shout, call out" (c. 1200), probably ultimately imitative. First used of bird cries, especially that of the owl, mid-15c. Related: Hooted; hooting. As a noun from mid-15c. Meaning "a laugh, something funny" is first recorded 1942. Slang sense of "smallest amount or particle" (the hoot you don't give when you don't care) is from 1891.

"A dod blasted ole fool!" answered the captain, who, till now, had been merely an amused on-looker. "Ye know all this rumpus wont do nobuddy a hoot o' good--not a hoot." ["Along Traverse Shores," Traverse City, Michigan, 1891]

Hooter in the same sense is from 1839.

HOOTER. Probably a corruption of iota. Common in New York in such phrases as "I don't care a hooter for him." "This note ain't worth a hooter." [John Russell Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1877]

1. マイケル?フィッシュが大好きです。彼は滑稽で面白い、実在の人物だ。

2.I can be very rude to motorrists who hoot at me.

クラクションを鳴らしてくれた運転手には遠慮します。

3.They just don 't give a hoot .

彼らは全然気にしていない。

4.I never hoot my horn when I pick a girl up for a date.

私は車で女の子を迎えにデートに出かけるとき、クラクションを鳴らしたことがありません。

5.Mortlake strode on，ignoring the car，in spite of a further warning hoot .

モットレイクはラッパ警告を鳴らしているにもかかわらず、その車を無視して大股で前進し続けた。