tutting
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.91 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of making a tut sound in disapproval.
noun
A modern street dance style in which dancers position body parts in angular positions, especially moving the hands and fingers in intricate ways (finger-tutting).
Example Sentences
- "For all his tuttings about inexperienced amateurs, he had not taken in a word that Nansen had said."
Etymology
From the English nickname Tut for Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, likening the geometric positions and right angles of the dance style to the perceived angularity of ancient Egyptian at.