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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tut.

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Examples

  • On the way in we were rudely jostled by a couple of Japanese men elbowing themselves ahead to catch up with their group, earning them tut-tuts from the French, one of whom who rolled her eyes heavenward to say,

    BC Bloggers 2008

  • I've watched a lot of these tuts since the inception of this site and must say that your style of teaching is probably one of the best "tuts" has.

    Pixel2Life.com: Latest 20 Tutorials 2009

  • The 'tuts' from those who see you chucking a tin can in the bin ...

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • -- "said the Mouse, and the" tuts "sounded like beads dropping into a pill-box --" tut, tut!

    The Admiral's Caravan Reginald Bathurst Birch 1880

  • He is so serious about shunning debt that his Web site takes only debit cards; try to pay with a Capital One Visa, and the system rejects the card, then tut-tuts at you.

    Lead Us Not Into Debt 2009

  • I suggest you do ‘your thing’ privately and liberate yourself from the tuts and interruptions of the decent.

    “Two Years” for Jon Harper Killer « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • There was no interruption when he called for national unity, and only the faintest of tuts when he tried to invoke the memory of those who had died in Egypt's anti-government uprising, deaths many in the square attribute to his forces.

    Egypt's day of rumour and expectation ends in anger and confusion 2011

  • He is so serious about shunning debt that his Web site takes only debit cards; try to pay with a Capital One Visa, and the system rejects the card, then tut-tuts at you.

    Lead Us Not Into Debt 2009

  • "Oh simony," tuts the pope (Jeremy Irons) at his cardinal (Derek Jacobi), he can't move for accusations of simony.

    The Borgias: Grace Dent's TV OD 2011

  • He is so serious about shunning debt that his Web site takes only debit cards; try to pay with a Capital One Visa, and the system rejects the card, then tut-tuts at you.

    Lead Us Not Into Debt 2009

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