hout-tout

The Century Dictionary: The Encyelopedic Lexicon of the English Language · 1887 · p. 246

(hét’tét’), interj. Same as hoot. “Hout tout, man!” answered Jasper, ‘‘keep a calm sough,” Scott, Monastery, xiv. houvet, ”. [Now only in dial. form how (sea how); ME. howe, howve,