Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An impure zinc oxide obtained as a sublimate from the flues of zinc-smelting furnaces and used as a polishing powder.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Impure zinc protoxid, collected from the chimneys of smelting-furnaces.
  • noun A nose gay; a posy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) A yellow or brown amorphous substance obtained as a sublimation product in the flues of smelting furnaces of zinc, and consisting of a crude zinc oxide.

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  • noun A powdered form of impure zinc oxide used for polishing

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English tutie, from Old French, from Arabic tūtīyā, from Persian, from Sanskrit tuttham, blue vitriol, probably of Dravidian origin; akin to Kannada tutta.]

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French tutie; compare Spanish tutia, atutia, Latin tutia; all from Persian.

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Examples

  • StEFaN: @tutty: acel serial se numeste battlestar galactica tutty: exista un fundal al site-lui cu o tipa imbracata in rosu si blonda si un tip imbracat la costum the jagan eye: iupii, mai un pic si incepe reaper!

    Blogul iubitorilor de seriale Tv - TvBlog 2009

  • StEFaN: @tutty: acel serial se numeste battlestar galactica tutty: exista un fundal al site-lui cu o tipa imbracata in rosu si blonda si un tip imbracat la costum the jagan eye: iupii, mai un pic si incepe reaper!

    Blogul iubitorilor de seriale Tv - TvBlog 2009

  • StEFaN: @tutty: acel serial se numeste battlestar galactica tutty: exista un fundal al site-lui cu o tipa imbracata in rosu si blonda si un tip imbracat la costum

    Blogul iubitorilor de seriale Tv - TvBlog 2009

  • StEFaN: @tutty: acel serial se numeste battlestar galactica tutty: exista un fundal al site-lui cu o tipa imbracata in rosu si blonda si un tip imbracat la costum the jagan eye: iupii, mai un pic si incepe reaper!

    Blogul iubitorilor de seriale Tv - TvBlog 2009

  • StEFaN: @tutty: acel serial se numeste battlestar galactica tutty: exista un fundal al site-lui cu o tipa imbracata in rosu si blonda si un tip imbracat la costum the jagan eye: iupii, mai un pic si incepe reaper!

    Blogul iubitorilor de seriale Tv - TvBlog 2009

  • When asked to display common ointments made from gourds, lead, sandalwood, and tutty, he could not do so.

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • Oh yeah, that tutty fruity bread and milk bread and bun bread...the list goes on.

    Street Sandwich Meera 2009

  • Washed spodium (tutty?) mixed with grease, and not of a thinner consistence than dough, is to be carefully triturated, and moistened with the juice of unripe raisins; and having dried in the sun, moisten until it is of the consistence of an ointment.

    On Regimen In Acute Diseases 2007

  • It tasted so good, it was almost as awesome as the tutty-fruity laces you used to get at Woolworths!

    medicine 2006

  • They are treated on first appearance by the actual cautery, and, when practicable, by cutting off the joint; the drugs popularly applied are Tutiya (tutty) and verdigris.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

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  • "A commonly mentioned panacea was 'tutty,' charred scrapings from inside chimneys. According to Francesco Pegolotti, tutty was imported from Alexandria, so obviously a routine European chimney would not suffice. Tutty was considered a spice as it was nonperishable, imported, fragrant (after a fashion), sold in small quantities, and expensive."

    Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination (New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2008), 13.

    October 9, 2017

  • (adjective) - Cross, irritable.

    --Thomas Sternberg's Dialect and Folk-Lore of Northamptonshire, 1851

    January 19, 2018