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Definition of Tootle
1. Noun. The sound of casual playing on a musical instrument. "He enjoyed hearing the tootles of their horns as the musicians warmed up"
2. Verb. Play (a musical instrument) casually. "The streets tootle with cars "; "The saxophone player was tootling a sad melody"
Definition of Tootle
1. v. i. To toot gently, repeatedly, or continuously, on a wind instrument, as a flute; also, to make a similar noise by any means.
Definition of Tootle
1. Verb. To make a soft, toot sound ¹
2. Verb. To amble aimlessly ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tootle
1. to toot softly or repeatedly [v -TLED, -TLING, -TLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tootle
Literary usage of Tootle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Musical World (1870)
"tootle. Yes, young woman, I am the man from the theatre. That is to say, .4 room
at Mr. ... I have seen him at the stage door, waiting for Miss tootle. ..."
2. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901)
"tootle, who went rather late to an evening party with wife and daughters, ...
On tootle Height, in the township oí Dilworth (Ribchester), ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"2. To mutter, to speak to one's self, Kinross.] [tootle, TOOTER, *. Silly gossip ;
a person given to gossiping, ..."
4. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by William Randolph Hearst (1851)
"The flute made the following excellent remarks— tootle, tootle, tootle,
tootle,—tootle, tootle, tee;—and then again, which I thought a new observation,— ..."
5. The Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal of Satire edited by Arthur William A'Beckett (1869)
"My sweetheart is Li-ee-too, tootle turn Li-ee-too, Too tootle-too tootle-too ...
You all of you Lie-ee-too, Where can I Lie-ee-too, Yo tootle, yo tootle, ..."
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