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单词 tootle
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tootlen.

/ˈtuːt(ə)l/
Etymology: < tootle v.
1. An act or the action of tootling or sounding a horn or similar wind-instrument.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of wind instruments
blas?c1225
blastc1275
poopa1556
tooting1568
toota1598
too-too1812
tootling1821
too-tooing1843
tootle1850
tootle-te-tootle1855
toot-toot1883
toot-tootling1904
1850 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour xli, in New Monthly Mag. Apr. 538 Bragg's queer tootle of his horn..now sounded at the low end of the cover.
1889 Sc. Leader 6 Dec. 5 The sudden and shrill tootle of a trumpet.
1894 Daily News 12 Mar. 2/1 The guard's inspiriting tootle wakes the echoes.
2. Speech or writing of more sound than sense; verbiage, twaddle.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > verbosity
multiplicationa1500
surplusage1534
verbosity1541
wordishness1657
wordiness1680
verboseness1695
verbiagea1721
verbage1742
palaverment1816
tootling1821
tootle1883
1883 Cornhill Mag. May 542 Sometimes..the tootle becomes a middle in a weekly paper, sometimes it assumes the guise of an amusing review.
1888 Sc. Leader 8 Mar. 7 The good old order of English prose which used to be called at the English Universities ‘tootle’, and for which there are other names, older and more recent, but hardly any more expressive.

Derivatives

tootle-te-ˈtootle n. (also tootle-tootle) a piece of continuous tootling.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of wind instruments
blas?c1225
blastc1275
poopa1556
tooting1568
toota1598
too-too1812
tootling1821
too-tooing1843
tootle1850
tootle-te-tootle1855
toot-toot1883
toot-tootling1904
1855 R. Browning Up at Villa ix Bang, whang, whang goes the drum, tootle-te-tootle the fife.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 July 4/2 The musical powers of most of the bands, whom no amount of entreaty could divert even for a moment from their prearranged and wholly meaningless tootle-ti-tootle.
1910 Sat. Rev. 10 Sept. 322/1 Footle-footle-footle goes the clarinet with a fragment of a theme; tootle-tootle-tootle echoes the flute.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2018).

tootlev.

/ˈtuːt(ə)l/
Etymology: Frequentative < toot v.2 + -le suffix.
1. intransitive.
a. To toot continuously; to produce a succession of modulated notes on a wind-instrument.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (intransitive)]
blowc1275
blast1384
toot1549
wind1600
tootle1842
tootle-too1857
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xviii The fifer..tootled with some difficulty.
1878 R. L. Stevenson Inland Voy. 4 Tootling on the sentimental flute.
1879 G. A. Sala Paris herself Again II. iv. 53 The sable minstrel..begins to tootle most sweetly.
b. Of birds: To make a similar noise.
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the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > sing
singOE
chant?a1500
record1590
firdon16..
warble1606
jerk1768
tootle1820
roll1886
1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life (ed. 3) 207 When tootling robins carol-welcomes sing.
1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 25 To hear the robin's note once more, Who tootles while he pecks his meal.
1899 O. Seaman In Cap & Bells (1900) 21 The lark is tootling in the sky.
c. figurative. To write twaddle or mere verbiage.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > be copious [verb (intransitive)] > be verbose
verbalize1609
over-worda1656
tootle1883
1883 [see tootler n. at Derivatives].
1894 Daily News 28 Feb. 5/1 Mr. Skeat's ‘Life of Chaucer’ is entirely businesslike. He does not ‘tootle’ over what Chaucer may have done, and seen, and said.
2. transitive. To play music on (a wind instrument). Also transferred and with music as direct object colloquial.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (transitive)]
blowc1000
blazec1384
blast1530
toot1614
breathe1718
tootle1890
1890 J. Service Thir Notandums xiv. 99 Heralds clad in green tootled glorious musick frae their siller horns.
1895 ‘G. Mortimer’ Like Stars that Fall iii. 28 ‘There's no need for the cornet in this piece,’ said Jenny. ‘No, only Abrahams is so fond of tootling his bloomin' instrument,’ said Larpenti.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 433 Tootling risky apropos songs at commercial travellers' smokers.
1978 J. Galway Autobiogr. xiv. 164 I had tootled my flute to some purpose with Herbert von Karajan.
3. intransitive. To walk, to wander casually or aimlessly; usually const. along, around, etc. Also transferred with reference to motor transport; to tootle off, to go, to depart. colloquial.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander > idly
roil?c1335
gada1500
stavera1500
vaguea1525
scoterlope1574
idle1599
haika1605
saunter1671
stravaig1801
palmer1805
streel1805
taver1808
traik1818
gander1822
gallivant1823
gilravage1825
project1828
daud1831
meander1831
to knock about1833
to kick about1839
to knock round1848
piroot1858
sashay1865
june1869
tootle1902
slop1907
beetle1919
stooge1941
swan1942
1902 Cornhill Mag. July 102 I tootled down to Cooney's a half-hour before time.
1914 M. Findlater & J. Findlater Crossriggs xx. 149 Take that beast and stop all his work, feed him fat and let him sleep on the rug and tootle around the garden.
1918 Punch 3 Apr. 222 Well, I must tootle off now.
1951 J. B. Priestley Festival at Farbridge ii. ii. 272 You're going to be tootling round to a lot of big houses.
1956 N. Coward South Sea Bubble ii. i. 52 It's getting late... It is time for me to tootle off home.
a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 532 We had a real honeymoon holiday..tootling round in a Volkswagen which Helga Greene's villainous friend Johnnie in Heraklion had rented to us.
1978 E. O'Brien Mrs. Reinhardt 55 He would work for an hour or so and then tootle off.
1983 Listener 20 Oct. 31/3 Veteran cars tootle down country lanes.

Derivatives

ˈtootler n. a writer of ‘tootle’, verbiage, or twaddle.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > verbosity > one who
tootler1883
1883 Cornhill Mag. May 542 The sort of scribblers..whom I am wont to call in my own private dialect the tootlers, that is to say the good folk who write a tootle about nothing in particular.
tootle-too v. (also tootle-tootle) = 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (intransitive)]
blowc1275
blast1384
toot1549
wind1600
tootle1842
tootle-too1857
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. v. 97 ‘Here's Rugby,’..said the old guard, pulling his horn out of its case, and tootle-tooing away.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Dec. 3/1 The drumming and the tootle-tooing, even the skirling of the Hallelujah maidens.
ˈtootling n. and adj.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [adjective] > regular or alternating rhythm > tooting
tootling1821
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of wind instruments
blas?c1225
blastc1275
poopa1556
tooting1568
toota1598
too-too1812
tootling1821
too-tooing1843
tootle1850
tootle-te-tootle1855
toot-toot1883
toot-tootling1904
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > verbosity
multiplicationa1500
surplusage1534
verbosity1541
wordishness1657
wordiness1680
verboseness1695
verbiagea1721
verbage1742
palaverment1816
tootling1821
tootle1883
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 30 He heard the tootling robin sound her knell.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 36 The tuteling fife, and hoarse rap-tapping drum.
1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 105 The tootling of pan-pipes in front of the shows.
1883 Cornhill Mag. May 543 The consumer who takes a delight in the perusal of tootling.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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