tooting
Making horn sounds
Tooting is making short sounds on a horn, whistle, or similar instrument: a car tooting its horn, tooting on a recorder.
The word suggests brief, often cheerful blasts rather than sustained notes.
In the phrase tooting one's own horn, it means boasting or self-promotion.
Tooting also appears as a mild intensifier in expressions like you're darn tootin', meaning emphatically yes.
Loud nasal blast
- beepShort electronic tone
- blastSudden forceful burst
- fanfareCeremonial brass announcement
- trumpetValved brass wind instrument
car horn · klaxon · signal · noise · attention · impatience · celebration · traffic
Excessive self-praise
- self-promotionPublicizing one's own merits
- showing offOstentatious self-display
- humble bragBoast dressed as complaint
- self-praiseLauding one's own merits
vanity · ego · arrogance · pride · swagger · boastful · immodest · self-congratulation
Formless, expanding substance
- fartExpelled digestive gas
- passing gasReleasing digestive air
- intestinalOf the gut
- bloatingSwollen, expanded state
digestion · embarrassment · humor · smell · odor · methane · bodily · stomach
Administrative town or district
- WandsworthLondon administrative district
- South LondonCapital's lower half
- suburbOutlying residential district
- neighborhoodResidential area nearby
high street · commute · residential · Broadway · station · gentrification · Thames · multicultural
honk
Loud nasal blast
trumpet · car horn · klaxon · signal · noise · attention · impatience · celebration · traffic · driving
bragging
Excessive self-praise
- self-promotionPublicizing one's own merits
- showing offOstentatious self-display
- humble bragBoast dressed as complaint
self-praise · vanity · ego · arrogance · pride · swagger · boastful · immodest · self-congratulation · crowing
gas
Formless, expanding substance
- fartExpelled digestive gas
- passing gasReleasing digestive air
- intestinalOf the gut
bloating · digestion · embarrassment · humor · smell · odor · methane · bodily · stomach · gut
borough
Administrative town or district
- WandsworthLondon administrative district
- South LondonCapital's lower half
- suburbOutlying residential district
neighborhood · high street · commute · residential · Broadway · station · gentrification · Thames · multicultural · British
- horn soundshonk, beep, blare, blast, horn blast
- flatulencefart, gas, flatus, passing gas, breaking wind
- bee communicationround dance, stop signal, piping, pheromones
tootingstrumming
Sweeping across guitar strings
drumming · plucking · bowing · striking · fingerpicking
tootingsilence
Total lack of sound
whispering · muting · hushing · murmuring · quieting
tootingmodesty
Absence of vanity
humility · self-deprecation · downplaying · self-effacement · understatement
- tooting one's horn
- darn tootingEmphatic affirmation expression
- damn tootingEmphatic yes, agreement
- dang tootingFolksy emphatic affirmation