What's the difference between fun and hoot?

Fun


Definition:

  • (n.) Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Experts on the red web share their views Read more Earlier this year student Ruslan Starostin posted an image poking fun at Putin on VKontakte.
  • (2) You know, even the second Ghostbusters wasn't as much fun for me as the first one.
  • (3) Although it never really has a sense of fun and burns with ill-focused anger, The Paperboy represents a kind of triumph, surely, even if it's just in getting such high-profile actors to do such low-down deeds.
  • (4) It's certainly fun, cheap and eco-friendly and I would definitely consider it for hops within the UK, but the specific London to Paris car-pooling service is not one I'd like to experience again myself.
  • (5) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
  • (6) In a recent episode of the BBC Radio 4 comedy Alun Cochrane's Fun House , Cochrane joked of how he sleeps better in the living room.
  • (7) Britain’s troubled relationship with the EU has provided Boris Johnson with nothing but fun since he first made his name lampooning the federalist ambitions of Jacques Delors as the Daily Telegraph’s Brussels correspondent in the early 1990s .
  • (8) Oh, and let’s not forget about him doing bad dance moves in a video making fun of Drake’s choreography in the Hotline Bling video.
  • (9) But what was, perhaps, even more fun than a win in the offing was that the desperation of opponents of same-sex marriage leading up to today’s argument in Obergefell v Hodges was palpable.
  • (10) Haki's naivety about English detective fiction is more than matched by Latimer's ingenuous excitement as Haki describes to him Dimitrios's sordid career, and he decides it would be fun to write the gangster's biography.
  • (11) A Cairo heart surgeon inspired by the US news programme The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has captivated Egyptian viewers with a new style of satirical TV show poking fun at politicians on air for the first time.
  • (12) It also intrigues me that the reaction of some women when challenged on this question so uncannily echoes the defence of sexist men in the 60s and 70s: come off it, love, it's just a bit of harmless fun.
  • (13) But there was always a niggling suspicion that the fun couldn’t last – that Tempelhof’s unique status as a hugely valuable piece of land essentially given over to the average picnicking Berliner was too good to be true.
  • (14) Which sounds fun, but not when you’re in fourth grade, doing homework Facebook Twitter Pinterest With his mother, wearing her chemotherapy wig, in New York, 1997.
  • (15) It is a fun place to stay, with pop-art-inspired design, a hairdresser, a photo booth and film nights.
  • (16) It’s all very well for Hopeless to make fun of me saying Brexit means Brexit,” said Hapless, haplessly.
  • (17) Morgan, the Fun Lovin' Criminals frontman who also has a show on Radio 2 , said Laverne had "no idea what I put into my shows.
  • (18) It's probably unfair, though quite good fun, to blame the Queen; people have heard "my husband and I" and perhaps assume "and I" is always right.
  • (19) Yau, an “umbrella soldier” , ran in local district council elections for the first time in November 2015, unsuccessfully challenging the pro-Beijing lawmaker Priscilla Leung Mei-fun to whom she lost by just over 300 votes.
  • (20) At what point am I going to be able to rent a flat and have a record player, so I can listen to other people’s music for a bit?” Living in the Queens Head was fun, but not good for long-term health.

Hoot


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To cry out or shout in contempt.
  • (v. i.) To make the peculiar cry of an owl.
  • (v. t.) To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
  • (n.) A derisive cry or shout.
  • (n.) The cry of an owl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Just a whisper between us, its about time some of the old guard got a hoot under their perch.
  • (2) Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the first minister accused Cameron of not caring "two hoots about the NHS in Wales" and using it to make political points.
  • (3) You couldn’t make it up, could you?” He hoots with derisive laughter.
  • (4) Lawrence, according to Foster, is variously "ballsy", "a spritely tomboy", "a hoot" and "a gem with a killer stare".
  • (5) In the meantime, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are awash with people forwarding the information, sharing links to foreign websites, expressing opinions – and utterly ignoring those who are making pathetic attempts to turn back the clock to a time before WikiLeaks, and before bloggers who don't give two hoots about the censor."
  • (6) But not one female Galloway voter I spoke to in Bradford this week seemed to give two hoots about what he gets up to in his private life.
  • (7) Quite splendidly, she shows no sign of giving a hoot.
  • (8) There is almost no question that doesn't earn a wail or a hoot.
  • (9) The Labour leader even forgot to mention the deficit in his conference speech , the Conservatives will hoot – tax cuts at the ready – so Labour can’t be trusted with the nation’s finances.
  • (10) Then, he took me to task for things other people had told me about him, hooting uproariously at the notion that any of them was in a position to talk about him.
  • (11) Purves said she was not upset with the Telegraph and would not want to censor anybody, adding that Marchessini is a "hoot" who writes her endless rude letters.
  • (12) He talks about "helping people now while putting public finances on track for the future" and "providing support and protection to families and businesses when they need it most", but a reference to "living within our means" sparks hooting from the Tories.
  • (13) But Fleur is also a novelist, and one day her manuscript of Warrender Chase goes missing ... Sir Quentin's selectively incontinent aged mother is an unforgettable creation; Fleur herself (whose resilient refrain is "I went on my way, rejoicing") is a hoot.
  • (14) Be Free and Chatpot are delightful rhythm games on delicate sax motifs, distant hoots and synthesised vocals, set against Seb Rochford’s clappy drum grooves or soft clatters; the snappy rimshots and lazy tenor-shruggings of They’re All Ks and Qs Lucien are irresistible all the way to their finale.” What they said: “I wanted for there to be a strong rhythmic drive that propels it, and then sometimes for there to be the feeling of pure space.” – Tom Herbert.
  • (15) Questions concerning which coach had meant most to Smith was hooted off court by all except the conscientious interpreters, who went through question and formal reply in all three languages.
  • (16) I don’t want to get strong, but I want to be definitive about that.” “The recommendation was made by people who didn’t give a hoot about politics,” added Comey.
  • (17) You may find bitterns making their basso profundo hoot, or you could see otters, dragonflies and adders.
  • (18) she hoots at her gulping husband, woggle quivering with horror.
  • (19) Meanwhile, Howard Shapiro of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes "One Man, Two Guvnors is the hoot of the season" .
  • (20) We know that some Lib Dem backbenchers will defy whatever instructions they are given and vote against, but if the frontbench are voting with the government, then it doesn't matter a hoot how many of their backbenchers defy the whips.

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