drone vs toot

drone

noun
  • A humming or deep murmuring sound. 

  • One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe. 

  • One who performs menial or tedious work. 

  • A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character. 

  • A remotely controlled aircraft, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). 

  • A Toyota HiAce or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members. 

  • A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen. 

  • A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds. 

  • A low-pitched hum or buzz. 

verb
  • To speak in a monotone way. 

  • To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz. 

  • To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft. 

toot

noun
  • The noise of a horn or whistle. 

  • A portion of cocaine that a person snorts. 

  • A fart; flatus. 

  • Cocaine. 

  • Rubbish; tat. 

  • A toilet. 

  • A spree of drunkenness. 

  • A message on the social networking software Mastodon. 

verb
  • To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound. 

  • Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development. 

  • To see; to spy. 

  • To stand out, or be prominent. 

  • To peep; to look narrowly. 

  • To go on a drinking binge. 

  • To snort (a recreational drug). 

  • To make the sound of a horn or whistle. 

  • To flatulate. 

  • To post a message on a Mastodon instance (a self-hosted version of the networking software). 

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