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Ted Turner, berating Murdoch as a warmonger at a luncheon or whatever."It's not how big you are, it's how good you are that really counts," Turner said, drawing hoots from the audience. Initially, I...
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Just hoots of laughter, aldi. He is cracking innuendo; they are guffawing. Don't need to bring left-leaning or right-leaning into this.
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To me it seems like an obvious reference to the size and utility of male sexual equipment. A "double entendre" in the classic mode, ridiculing the subject of the comment in a subtle way.
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wg your post did not appear on my screen as I wrote mine. I am a bit slow in composing posts. Anyway I apologize for the inadvertent mantle. Think of it as great minds in the same gutter.
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A gutter, of course, to which my mind never stoops. (Damn, missed it! Dumb question of the week.)
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Don't tell me a stoop is the gutter! I have often wondered when I have read it in American books, but I had a vague notion of steps or a wall."He was sitting on the stoop at the front of his house"Why...
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No, a "stoop" is an uncovered, raised entrance to a building, reached by stairs. From the Dutch "stoep" (related to "step").To sit on the stoop is to sit on the front steps to one's building.
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Isn't this a regionalism?I don't think I've ever heard it in the wild, and I associate it with New York/Archie Bunkerese.
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It's used regularly in South Africa to mean verandah - the Dutch version, stoep, is pronounced much like stoop. I haven't heard it used in the UK, however.
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Unfortunately, the latest volume of DARE stops at "Sk." I don't know how widespread "stoop" is."Stoop" is definitely used in NYC. And given the Dutch origin, I'd say it has a fair chance of...
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The final question of the evening to Turner: What will be his epitaph. "I have nothing more to say," said TurnerSimilar to Emily Dickinson's "Called back."
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I don't find any indication that "hoot" used in this sense would mean anything other than bing derisive. I think it was a bad choice of a word by the writer, that's all.Even though MWO says, "to shout...
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My first association is hooting with laughter. Don't you say that in the States?
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...and gallery? I ran across the word gallery in the context of a rural Louisiana setting. Interesting that they all (except stoop) came (ultimately) from Latin. M-W only mentions Hindi as the source...
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