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Tootle

//ˈtuːtəl// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A soft toot sound.

    "1891, Thirteen Essays on Education, London: Percival & Co., E. W. Howson, “The Teaching of Music in Public Schools,” p. 37, No one, least of all those with a musical ear, can take a form or even read a book in close proximity to the ineffectual tootle of a flute, the maddening squeaks of a raw fiddler, or the spasmodic grunts of a euphonium."

  2. 2
    the sound of casual playing on a musical instrument wordnet
  3. 3
    A trip or excursion. colloquial

    "In between, is Granny May’s only daughter Juliet. A wonderful character who still joins me on the odd tootle."

Verb
  1. 1
    To make a soft toot sound. intransitive

    "Now the scythe the morn salutes, In the meadow tinkling soon; While on mellow-tootling flutes Sweetly breathes the shepherd’s tune."

  2. 2
    play (a musical instrument) casually wordnet
  3. 3
    To play (a musical instrument) making such a sound. transitive

    "A young, fresh-faced man, sitting by the driver, tootled a tandem horn."

  4. 4
    To go (somewhere); to amble aimlessly. colloquial, intransitive

    "I suppose we’d better tootle back to the ballroom."

  5. 5
    To transport (someone somewhere). colloquial, transitive

    "[…] he would just see if his shover had enough in the tank to tootle them down to Warborough […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From toot + -le, frequentative.

Etymology 2

From toot + -le, frequentative.

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