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tootle¹

  • /ˈtuːtəl/

Rhymes with -uːtəl

Where it comes from

From toot + -le, frequentative.

verb tootles · tootling · tootled

  1. intransitive To make a soft toot sound. Now the scythe the morn salutes, In the meadow tinkling soon; While on mellow-tootling flutes Sweetly breathes the shepherd’s tune.
  2. transitive To play (a musical instrument) making such a sound. A young, fresh-faced man, sitting by the driver, tootled a tandem horn.
  3. colloquial, intransitive To go (somewhere); to amble aimlessly. I suppose we’d better tootle back to the ballroom.
  4. colloquial, transitive To transport (someone somewhere). […] he would just see if his shover had enough in the tank to tootle them down to Warborough […]

noun tootles

  1. A soft toot sound. 1891, Thirteen Essays on Education, London: Percival & Co., E. W. Howson, “The Teaching of Music in Public Schools,” p. 37, No one, least of all those with a musical ear, can take a form or even read a book in close proximity to the ineffectual tootle of a flute, the maddening squeaks of a raw fiddl
  2. colloquial A trip or excursion. In between, is Granny May’s only daughter Juliet. A wonderful character who still joins me on the odd tootle.

Tootle²

proper noun Tootles

  1. A surname.

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@misc{tootle_2026,
  title = {tootle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tootle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}