TOOTLE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The sound of casual playing on a musical instrument

Example:

he enjoyed hearing the tootles of their horns as the musicians warmed up

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("tootle" is a kind of...):

sound (the sudden occurrence of an audible event)

Derivation:

tootle (play (a musical instrument) casually)

Present simple: I / you / we / they tootle ... he / she / it tootles

Past simple: tootled

Past participle: tootled

-ing form: tootling

Meaning:

Play (a musical instrument) casually

Example:

the saxophone player was tootling a sad melody

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "tootle" is one way to...):

beep; blare; claxon; honk; toot (make a loud noise)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence examples:

Cars tootle in the streets

The streets tootle with cars

Derivation:

tootle (the sound of casual playing on a musical instrument)