Shootest vs Shoutest - What's the difference?
shootest | shoutest |
(archaic) (shoot)
To launch a projectile.
# (label) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
# (label) To fire (a projectile).
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# (label) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
# (label) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
# (label) To ejaculate.
# To begin to speak.
# (label) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
# To dismiss or do away with.
# To photograph.
To move or act quickly or suddenly.
# (label) To move very quickly and suddenly.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VII
#*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges
# To go over or pass quickly through.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# (label) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
# (label) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
#* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
# To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
#* (George Herbert) (1593-1633)
# (label) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
# To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
#* (Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
#* (1800-1859)
# To send to someone.
(label) To act or achieve.
# (label) To lunge.
# (label) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
# To make the stated score.
(label) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
To develop, move forward.
# To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# To grow; to advance.
#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
#* (1700-1748)
# (label) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
# To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out .
#* Bible, (Psalms) xxii. 7
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
* (Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)
(label) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
* (Joseph Moxon) (1627-1691)
To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.(w)
* (1809-1892)
The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
* Evelyn
A photography session.
A hunt or shooting competition.
(professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
* Francis Bacon
* Drayton
A rush of water; a rapid.
(mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
(weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
A shoat; a young pig.
An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
(Webster 1913)
(shout)
A loud burst of voice or voices; a vehement and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing joy, triumph, exultation, or animated courage.
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A round of drinks in a pub; the turn to pay the shot or scot; an act of paying for a round of drinks.
* 1984 , ,
* 2006 , (Lily Allen), Knock 'Em Out
* 2008 , George Papaellinas, The Trip: An Odyssey , re.press, Australia,
(UK, Australia, jargon, slang) A call-out for an emergency services team.
To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.
* '', Act I, Scene II, 1797, George Steevens (editor), ''The Plays of William Shakespeare , Volume 7,
To utter with a shout; to cry; -- sometimes with out; as, to shout, or to shout out, a man's name.
(obsolete) To treat with shouts or clamor.
(colloquial) To pay for food, drink or entertainment for others.
* 1999 , Peter Moore, The Wrong Way Home: London to Sydney the Hard Way ,
* 2003 , Peter Watt, To Chase the Storm , Pan MacMillan Australia,
* 2005 , George G. Spearing, Dances with Marmots: A Pacific Crest Trail Adventure ,
* 2010 , Ivan Dunn, The Legend of Beau Baxter , HarperCollins Publishers, New Zealand,
(Internet) To post a text message (for example, email) in upper case.
As verbs the difference between shootest and shoutest
is that shootest is archaic second-person singular of shoot while shoutest is archaic second-person singular of shout.shootest
English
Verb
(head)shoot
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) shoten, from (etyl) .Verb
- If you please / To shoot an arrow that self way.
- There shot a streaming lamp along the sky.
- It didn't take me long to get there. I shot past the head at a ripping rate, the current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.
- Sheshoots the Stygian sound.
- Thy words shoot through my heart.
- These preachers make / His head to shoot and ache.
- If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals.
- an honest weaver as ever shot shuttle
- a pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores
- Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth.
- But the wild olive shoots , and shades the ungrateful plain.
- Well shot in years he seemed.
- Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, / To teach the young idea how to shoot .
- They shoot out the lip, they shake the head.
- Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.
- There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses.
- two pieces of wood that are shot , that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel
- The tangled water courses slept, / Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "shoot")Derived terms
* like shooting fish in a barrel * re-shoot * shoot down * shooter * shoot from the hip * shoot from the lip * shoot one's bolt * shoot oneself in the foot * shoot one's mouth off * shoot one's wad * shoot the boots * shoot the bull * shoot the messenger * shoot upNoun
(en noun)- Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring.
- The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot .
- One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.
- (Knight)
Derived terms
* (hunt or shooting competition) turkey shootEtymology 2
minced oath for (shit)Interjection
(en interjection)- Didn't you have a concert tonight?
- Shoot! I forgot! I have to go and get ready...
Synonyms
* (mild expletive) darn, dash, fiddlesticks, shucksshoutest
English
Verb
(head)shout
English
Noun
(en noun)page 290,
- “I?ll get my wine though,” taking out her wallet.
- “No. This is my shout ,” holding up his hand as though to ward her money off.
- Cut to the pub on a lads night out,
- Man at the bar cos it was his shout
page 6,
- It was always my shout down the pub with Theo.
Verb
(en verb)page 15,
- They ?houted thrice; what was the la?t cry for?
- (Bishop Hall)
- I?ll shout you all a drink.
- He?s shouting us all to the opening night of the play.
page 301,
- After shouting me a plate of noodles and limp vegetables, he helped me change money by introducing me to the stallholder who offered the best exchange rates.
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- ‘I have not seen my cousin Patrick in years,’ Martin answered defensively. ‘I doubt that, considering the way our lives have gone, an officer of the King?s army would be shouting me a drink in Mr O?Riley?s pub these days.’
page 32,
- Anyhow, he obviously bore no grudge against Kiwis, for he shouted me a beer and opened another one for himself, punctuating the operation with a spectacular and resounding fart that by all the laws of physical science should have left his trousers flapping in smouldering shreds.
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- Truth is, I notice the other blokes who have been shouting me nodding among themselves and thinking they?d better get in the queue if I am buying. Not likely. I am out of there.
- Please don't shout in the chat room.