Hoot vs. Soot — What's the Difference?

To utter the characteristic cry of an owl.

Soot ( suut) is a mass of impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons. It is more properly restricted to the product of the gas-phase combustion process but is commonly extended to include the residual pyrolysed fuel particles such as coal, cenospheres, charred wood, and petroleum coke that may become airborne during pyrolysis and that are more properly identified as cokes or char.

To make a loud raucous cry, especially of derision or contempt.

A deep black powdery or flaky substance consisting largely of amorphous carbon, produced by the incomplete burning of organic matter.

To shout down or drive off with jeering cries

Cover or clog (something) with soot

To express or convey by hooting

The fine black particles, chiefly composed of carbon, produced by incomplete combustion of coal, oil, wood, or other fuels.

The characteristic cry of an owl.

Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.

A sound suggesting the cry of an owl, especially the sound of a horn.

(transitive) To cover or dress with soot.

A cry of scorn or derision.

A black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from fuel in the process of combustion, which rises in fine particles, and adheres to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke; strictly, the fine powder, consisting chiefly of carbon, which colors smoke, and which is the result of imperfect combustion. See Smoke.

(Informal) One that is hilariously funny

To cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot; as, to soot land.

A hootenanny.

Sweet.

Used to express annoyance or objection.

A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

A derisive cry or shout.

Coat with soot

The cry of an owl.

(slang) A fun event or person. (See hootenanny)

A small particle; a whit or jot.

To cry out or shout in contempt.

To make the cry of an owl, a hoo.

To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.

To sound the horn of a vehicle

To cry out or shout in contempt.

To make the peculiar cry of an owl.

To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.

A derisive cry or shout.

The cry of an owl.

A very funny event, person, or experience; as, watching Jack try to catch that greased pig was a hoot.

A loud raucous cry (as of an owl)

A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt

Something of little value;

To utter a loud clamorous shout;