tootsie-wootsie

Nearly a decade ago, on a Metro bus, Q-Jo slid her tectonic plates of tootsie-wootsie tonnage onto a seat next to a (fortunately) tiny, black-clad crone who, it turned out, had recently returned from a visit to her ancestral home in Greece.

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994

The modern baby, recently imported, is placed in a stationary basket, just as if he were a newly purchased Maltese cat; and no matter how dear he may look when he blinks his eyes to sneeze, or puts his pink toe in his mouth, nobody ever thinks of leaning over him and telling him he is a tootsie-wootsie.

Idle Comments 1905

Otherwise, the movie used oldies more like jingles than integrated theater songs, such as Skip to My Lou and the title song, with its insipid "hootchie-kootchie/tootsie-wootsie" lines we must hear repeatedly.

chron.com Chronicle 2009