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Word: toot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yesterday, a Junior heard one Freshman say to another, "Let's go into Boston to-night on a devil of a toot. We won't be back till eleven o'clock." This is fact, not rumor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/5/1885 | See Source »

...blows the cornet in Holyoke really is quite toot-tone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/15/1882 | See Source »

...country to renew its work in behalf of the association. In reply to these calls, it says : "To all those who ask our aid for this we beg leave to say that last year you let us whistle for what we wanted, and this year we shall transfer the toot to your hands. and shall sit still listening to the mournful strains which it now becomes your turn to give forth. Ta-ta, Intercollegiate-Press-Associationists, the Acta is not anxious to experience any more frigidity of atmosphere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/17/1882 | See Source »

Then, warder, toot loudly your blatant horn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CHRISTMAS CAROL. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...hoot" is the last Williams slang for a toot, howl, or bust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 6/18/1880 | See Source »

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