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▪ I. ‖ tutu1|ˈtuːtuː|
[Maori.]
a. A New Zealand shrub yielding shining black juicy berries, containing poisonous seeds; = toot n.5 Also attrib.
1845E. Meurant Diary 4 Oct. (typescript, Alex. Turnbull Library, Wellington) 24 Bullocks..had been eating the tutu bush wich [sic] is poisonous to cattle. 1849[see slash v. 1 c]. 1857[see toot n.5]. 1861C. C. Bowen Poems 57 And flax and fern and tutu grew In wild luxuriance round. 1867[see tupakihi]. 1884A. Cox Recoll. 258 Footpaths..fringed with tutu bushes.
b. Phr. to eat (one's) tutu or toot, to become acclimatized, spec. to colonial life in New Zealand (see quots.). N.Z. slang (now Obs. exc. Hist.).
1857R. B. Paul Lett. from Canterbury ii. 26 [The newly arrived settlers] passed..through the crisis of unreasonableness, false pride, and grumbling, which old settlers call ‘eating their tutu’... The tutu, or ‘toot’,..is a native shrub the leaves of which may be eaten with safety by cattle gradually accumstomed to its use, but are often fatal to newly-landed animals. 1889G. P. Williams & W. P. Reeves Colonial Couplets 20 (Morris) The troublesome process..Which old settlers are wont to call ‘eating your tutu’. 1941Baker N.Z. Slang iii. 27 To eat toot was the pioneer way of describing the period during which new immigrants settled down to the cold facts of New Zealand life. More correctly the expression was to eat tutu..the poisonous plant. 1966G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. viii. 165 The early colonial phrase ‘to eat one's tutu’ meaning ‘to be acclimatized to colonial life’.
Hence ˈtutued a., poisoned by eating tutu.
1874A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences xv. 211 Flock-owners have sometimes to contend with a poisonous plant called the tutu (Coriaria ruscifolia), commonly pronounced toot... Those [sheep] feeding amongst it..are apt to be affected by it, or be, as the phrase is, ‘tutued’. 1878E. S. Elwell Boy Colonists 34 When they [sc. bullocks] were ‘tutu'd’ the only cures were either to bleed them or to put ammonia on the tip of the tongue.
▪ II. tutu2|ˈtuːtuː|
Also tu-tu.
[a. F. tutu, childish alteration of cucu, dim. of cul cul.]
A ballet skirt made up of layers of stiff frills, reaching halfway between the knee and the ankle (romantic tutu) or very short and standing out from the legs (classic tutu). Also attrib.
1910E. F. Spence Our Stage & its Critics ix. 196 She wished to exhibit what in technical slang is called le tutu, a term descriptive of the abbreviated costume and possessed also of a secondary meaning. 1913A. E. Johnson Russian Ballet 56 Columbine..attired in a scanty tu-tu. 1934A. L. Haskell Balletomania 26 An old-fashioned ballet for this old-fashioned tragedy of naked footlights and a dancer's tutus. 1947N. Nicolaeva-Legat Ballet Educ. iii. 49 To make a tutu skirt, the basque should first be cut. 1949Chujoy & Manchester Dance Encycl. 486/1 The classic tutu reaches to a little above the knee, the romantic to the ankle. 1958L. Gibbs Gowns & Satyr's Legs xii. 82 Four miniature ballet-girls, each poised gracefully on one toe and wearing a diminutive tutu. 1970B. Cartland We danced All Night vii. 196 A snow-white figure in a fluffy tutu. 1980‘M. Fonteyn’ Magic of Dance 239 The soft, full ballet skirt Marie Taglioni had introduced climbed to just below the knee, then to mid-thigh. As it was shortened, it was made fuller and stood out more and more stiffly until it became the modern tutu. |