hoot owl
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noun
any of various owls that hoot.
Origin of hoot owl
An Americanism dating back to 1880–85
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The call of the hoot-owl was too familiar to the Coombeland men to deceive.
Crown and SceptreGeorge Manville Fenn
From the Bowhead the sound comes like the drawn-out "hoo-hoo-oo-oo-oo" of the hoot-owl.
The New NorthAgnes Deans Cameron
The distant sound of a hoot-owl startled Flea from her tears.
From the Valley of the MissingGrace Miller White
She goes 'bout the lake doin' nothin' but hollerin' like a hoot-owl, and she don't have enough to eat.
From the Valley of the MissingGrace Miller White
Very often they sighed, and sometimes there was a pensive quietness broken only by the hoot-owl.
A Little Florida LadyDorothy C. Paine
hoot owl
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