tootle
/ˈtuːtəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.64 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "Now the scythe the morn salutes, In the meadow tinkling soon; While on mellow-tootling flutes Sweetly breathes the shepherd’s tune."
- "We know the old lady is upstairs and that she is quite alone in the house and therefore it would be perfectly useless for her to tootle on her bedroom bell."
- "Their booth did not have so many customers as did the other booths where the tootling laugh of Maybelle Merriwether sounded and Fanny Elsing’s giggles and the Whiting girls’ repartee made merriment."
- "During the night, some of the locomotives began to tootle to one another, and then to move."
- "A young, fresh-faced man, sitting by the driver, tootled a tandem horn."
- "[…] Cecil can tootle a pretty fair sax, at that, if the play happens to come up."
Etymology
From toot + -le, frequentative.