cry vs hoot

cry

noun
  • A shout or scream. 

  • A desperate or urgent request. 

  • Words shouted or screamed. 

  • A group of hounds. 

  • A clamour or outcry. 

  • A shedding of tears; the act of crying. 

  • A typical sound made by the species in question. 

verb
  • To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do. 

  • To shed tears; to weep. 

  • To shout, scream, yell. 

  • To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping. 

  • To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly. 

  • To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc. 

  • Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage. 

hoot

noun
  • A derisive cry or shout. 

  • A fun event or person. (See hootenanny) 

  • The cry of an owl. 

  • A small particle; a whit or jot. 

verb
  • To sound the horn of a vehicle 

  • To cry out or shout in contempt. 

  • To make the cry of an owl, a hoo. 

  • To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts. 

How often have the words cry and hoot occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )