toots
pronunciation
How to pronounce toots in British English:
UK [tʊts]
How to pronounce toots in American English:
US [tʊts]
Word Origin
- toots (n.)
- slang familiar form of address to a woman or girl, 1936, American English, short for tootsie, tootsy, from tootsy-wootsy (1895), a familiar form of address to a sweetheart, originally a playful or nursery name for a small foot, from childish pronunciation of foot (n.); compare tootsy.
Example
- 1. Toots appeared to be the only exception to this rule .
- 2. For toots had lifted him into the seat , and done it kindly too .
- 3. It was perfectly understood between paul and mr toots , that they were intimate friends , notwithstanding their distance in point of years and station .
- 4. Mr toots , seeing florence in tears , had great difficulty in getting beyond this point , and had nearly tumbled into the well again .
- 5. In the meantime mr toots , who had come upstairs after her , all unconscious of the effect he produced , announced himself with his knuckles on the door , and walked in very briskly .