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Totty

//ˈtɒti// adj, name, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    unsteady; dizzy, tottery, or rickety UK, dialectal, obsolete

    "Then came October full of merry glee: / For yet his noule [head] was totty of the must, / Which he was treading in the wine-fats see, […]"

  2. 2
    Tiny, wee. Scotland

    "She would meet me with a summerbag: shoes and the little black number, though it had a totey hole at the shoulder […]."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of Tottie (“female name, short for Charlotte”). alt-of, alternative
Noun
  1. 1
    sexually attractive women considered collectively; usually connoting a connection with the upper class. Ireland, UK, slang, uncountable
  2. 2
    Hottentot archaic, offensive

    "Only the elite of the party are here assembled; for it would be little short of sacrelige for a Totty or a Caffre to presume to enter these sacred precincts, or to join in the conversation of the master"

  3. 3
    an individual sexually attractive woman Ireland, UK, slang, uncountable

    "The mother screamed that Ali was a posh totty who held her nose up at ordinary folk with babies."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Compare totter.

Etymology 2

From tot (“small child”).

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