tootling
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]tootling
- present participle and gerund of tootle
Noun
[edit]tootling (plural tootlings)
- The sound of a tootle.
- 1894, George Bernard Shaw, “Puccini: Manon Lescaut”, in Louis Crompton, editor, The Great Composers: Reviews and Bombardments by Bernard Shaw[1], Berkeley: University of California Press, published 1978, page 307:
- […] raving through the mad scene in Lucia amid childish orchestral tootlings […]
- 1918, H. G. Wells, chapter 12, in Joan and Peter[2], London: Cassell, page 491:
- Then with melodious tootlings and amidst guttural plaudits, a big white automobile carrying a glitter of uniforms had gone by, driven at a headlong pace.