Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To toot softly and repeatedly, as on a flute.
- intransitive verb Informal To walk or drive in a leisurely manner; amble.
- noun The act or sound of tooting softly and repeatedly, as on a flute.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To toot gently or repeatedly; especially, to produce a succession of weak modulated sounds upon a flute.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To toot gently, repeatedly, or continuously, on a wind instrument, as a flute; also, to make a similar noise by any means.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make a soft,
toot sound - verb To
amble aimlessly
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the sound of casual playing on a musical instrument
- verb play (a musical instrument) casually
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When driving, do you flash your high beams and tootle your horn before overtaking?
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For fresh air, I may tootle along to an Apple Store, where I'll feel verily honoured if I'm in a shorter queue to give them my money more quickly for a machine that will sync up with all the applications mentioned above.
Grace Dent's TV OD: All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace 2011
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Comforting to know that I'm not the only one to find this tough, although it's dispiriting to know that some bright bunny will tootle along saying;
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Until then the new carriers can tootle around carrying helicopters, but as instruments of power projection they will be about as much use as a chocolate fire-guard.
Cameron's Defense Cuts Reveal a U.K. Preparing to do Less With Less Iain Martin 2010
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I'd tootle a trumpet, but showing off isn't Radioplayer's point, it being one of those online services that's so user-friendly it's as though it's always been there.
Rewind radio: Radioplayer; Ken Bruce; Jeremy Vine – review 2011
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There was no way she could do more than tootle on it.
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So off I would tootle to write a bit of colour at the Open Championship.
Back in the swing at the Open again thanks to cricket's silly season 2010
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It even inspired Eva to take out her tin whistle and tootle for a while.
Winter Bloom Tara Heavey 2010
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The one you posted is almost like some of those Chinese translations "blow horn loudly" becomes "tootle with vigor", for example you see in Reader's Digest or something.
Translating Gibberish 1 Dinosaur 2009
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Abney Park at Hell's Kitchen in Tacoma gaaneden came over to my place around 4: 30, so that she didn't need to tootle over from Renton during rush hour traffic.
Abney Park at Hell's Kitchen in Tacoma gaaneden 2007
jmjarmstrong commented on the word tootle
JM bemoans the under use of the good word 'tootle'.
February 1, 2009