Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense tut-tuts, present participle tut-tutting, past tense, past participle tut-tutted
1. convention
Tut-tut is used in writing to represent the sound that you make with your tongue touching the top of your mouth when you want to indicate disapproval, annoyance, or sympathy.
[feelings]
2. verb
If you tut-tutabout something, you express your disapproval of it, especially by making a sound with your tongue touching the top of your mouth.
We all spent a lot of time tut-tutting about Angie and her lifestyle. [VERB + about]
The doctor tut-tutted, dismissing my words as excuses. [VERB]
tut-tut in British English
( pronounced as alveolar clicks; spelling pron ˈtʌtˈtʌt)
exclamation
1.
an exclamation of mild reprimand, disapproval, or surprise
verbWord forms: -tuts, -tutting or -tutted
2. (intransitive)
to express disapproval by the exclamation of "tut-tut"
noun
3.
the act of tut-tutting
Often shortened to: tut
tut-tut in American English
interjection, noun, verb intransitive see tut
Examples of 'tut-tut' in a sentence
tut-tut
Next, they admired the clothes in the window of Madame Irene's and Adele got the chance to tut-tut about the price of things.
Cathy Kelly JUST BETWEEN US (2002)
"We both agreed, tut-tut, sin gets everywhere these days. She'd told me that McGunn was not an uncommon name hereabouts.