Totty
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[edit] Etymology
A contraction of the Dutch Hottentot.
[edit] Noun
Totty
- (slang, archaic) a Hottentot
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- 1859: "Only the elite of the party are here assembled; for it would be little short of sacrelige for a Totty or a Caffre to presume to enter these sacred precincts, or to join in the conversation of the master." — William and Robert Chambers (1859). CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL OF POPULAR LITERATURE SCIENCE AND ARTS. London: W. & R. Chambers.
- 1879: "Between the Totty and the Kaffir a deadly hatred exists, the former seeming to have a natural love for hunting the latter." — Alfred Wilks Drayson (1879). Among the Zulus: The Adventures of Hans Sterk, South African Hunter and Pioneer, 338, Griffith and Farran.
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