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tot¹
- /tɒt/ UK
- /tɑt/ US
Sounds like taught, taut (cot–caught merger), Tat (father–bother merger) · Rhymes with -ɒt
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Scots tot, a shortened form of totum (“small child; tot”), of uncertain origin, perhaps shortened from totter (“to move in an unsteady way”),
Compare tottle, also Old Norse tottr (“name of a dwarf”), Swedish tutte (“small child”), Danish tommeltot (“little child”).
noun tots
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A small child.
He learned to run when he was just a tot.
Similar: toddler
-
A small amount of liquor, (particularly) a small measure of rum.
Then I give them a tot of rum apiece, as they sit huddled in their blankets.
Similar: nip
- Ellipsis of tater tot
- A small cup, usually made of tin.
- A foolish fellow. Whoe answeared like a toute, or a maddman, as he was, that he was for the Kinge.
tot²
- /tɒt/ UK
- /tɑt/ US
Sounds like taught, taut (cot–caught merger), Tat (father–bother merger) · Rhymes with -ɒt
Where it comes from
Clipping of total (“to sum”).
verb tots · totting · totted
- To sum or total. There are, of course, many ways to proceed from here, the most likely being that you, as an experienced tradesman, would simply know what these amounts come to (in terms of groups of ten) and can tot them up in your head.
- To mark (a debt) with the word tot (Latin for "so much"), indicating that it was good or collectible for the amount specified. a totted debt
noun tots
- A total, an addition of a long column of figures.
TOT³
proper noun
- Initialism of Trail of Tears
noun TOTs
- Initialism of tip of the tongue When experiencing a TOT, people not only retrieve a blocked word's sound and meaning; they also know some of its grammatical properties.
- Initialism of turnover tax
- Initialism of transfer of technology
- Initialism of time over target
- Initialism of time on target
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: toddler, bambino, tally, add, total, sum up, summate, sum, add up, tot up, yearling, add together, tote up, rugrat, kiddie, babe
Translations
Talk about this word "tot." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tot. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. tot. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tot "tot." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tot.Cite this
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