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▪ I. ‖ toto, a.|ˈtəʊtəʊ|
Abl. sing. masc. and neut. of L. tōtus all, whole, entire: occurring in a few phrases in literary use, as toto cælo |ˈtəʊtəʊ ˈsiːləʊ, ˈkaɪləʊ|, ‘by the whole heaven’, by as much as the distance between the poles, diametrically; in quot. 1844 attrib. entire, absolute; toto genere |ˈdʒɛnəriː|, in the whole nature or character; toto orbe |ˈɔːbiː|, ‘by the whole world’; = toto cælo.
1727Pope Art of Sinking i. Wks. 1751 VI. 167 In their others [pieces] they differ'd *toto cælo from us. 1844W. G. Ward Ideal Chr. Ch. (ed. 2) 272 The toto-coelo difference in kind between [etc.]. a1878Sir G. G. Scott Lect. Archit. xvi. (1879) II. 234 The dome [of the Pantheon]..differs toto cælo from the normal mode of construction.
1672Boyle Orig. & Virt. Gems i. 49 Bodies, that differ *toto genere, as Metals and Stones.
a1834Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1839) IV. 232 Here I differ *toto orbe from Waterland.
▪ II. toto, n.1|ˈtəʊtəʊ|
[ad. Swahili mtoto offspring, child.]
In East Africa: a child; a baby; a young animal; a young servant.
1916Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 719/2 Poor little ‘toto’, bereft of his mother. 1927Ibid. Nov. 762/1, I was a ‘toto’ then. How old I cannot say. In my tribe there is no record of birth or death. 1937K. Blixen Out of Africa iv. 336, I was..a long way in front of the waggons, with Farah, my dog Dusk and the Toto who looked after Dusk. 1964C. Willock Enormous Zoo v. 90 At first he ran out in front as is the custom with white rhino totos. 1979Observer (Colour Suppl.) 9 Sept. 43/1 We hear goat-bells, and tiny herd-boys emerge cautiously from the bush. ‘Give those totos a bowl of maize meal,’ Thesiger orders.
▪ III. toto, n.2 Mil. slang (of the 1914–18 war).|ˈtəʊtəʊ|
[a. Fr. mil. argot.]
A louse.
[1917G. Clover Stop at Suzanne's (1919) 223 They were all covered with lice—les totos they call them.] 1918Radiator 30 May 1 Dr. Kent Hagler..saw no evidence of flea or toto. a1919in E. C. Garrett Trench Ballads (1919) 78 Some people call 'em Totos—Some people call 'em lice. 1929Hall & Niles One Man's War 46, I do not know who developed lice first, but I noticed them on that march. We called them ‘totos’.
▪ IV. toto, totoo
(16th c.), i.e. too too: see too. |