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My Grandson Is An Absolute Hoot!!!
In an Idiomatic kind of way…
If you Google the meaning of hoot — which, of course, is what you are going to do — this is what you get:
“a profound or medium-pitched musical sound, often wavering or interrupted, is the typical call of many kinds of owl.”
But that is not what I was trying to convey when speaking about my one and only grandson.
So I naturally Googled it again. And, to my surprise, the Cambridge Dictionary knew what I was talking about:
“to be very funny: He’s an absolute hoot. Celebrating & entertaining.”
Eureka!!!
After Googling it as an idiomatic expression, this is what I found:
- Slang.
- A hilarious person,
- situation,
- or event: Your cousin is such a hoot!
- Something or someone amusing.
- And many more…
The picture shows him the night before he returned home to his dad from our yearly visit — who was not fond of the new hair color — we thought it was hilarious!
He allowed his “Tias” to do it for him (Tias are aunts for you, non-speaking Spanish…