tutu

See also: Tutu, tutú, tutù, tutū, tütü, tūtū, and tự tử

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French tutu, from cucu (“bum, bottom”), playful reduplication of cul (“arse”).

A tutu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuːtuː/

  • Audio (UK)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -uːtuː

Noun

tutu (plural tutus)

1. A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.

   The ballet dancer representing the swan wore a white tutu.

Translations

ballet skirt

• Afrikaans: tutu
• Catalan: tutú m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 芭蕾舞裙 (bālěiwǔqún)

• Danish: strutteskørt n
• Dutch: tutu (nl) m
• Finnish: tutu (fi)
• French: tutu (fr) m
• German: Tutu (de) n
• Hungarian: tütü (hu)
• Irish: tútú m
• Italian: tutù (it) m
• Japanese: チュチュ (chuchu)
• Korean: 튀튀 (twitwi)
• Maltese: tutu m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: strutteskjørt n

  Nynorsk: strutteskjørt n

• Portuguese: tutu (pt) m
• Russian: па́чка (ru) f (páčka)
• Spanish: tutú (es) m
• Swedish: tutu (sv) c
• Turkish: tütü (tr)
• Vietnamese: váy xoè

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Maori tutu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tutu/ (This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA or enPR then please add some!
  Particularly: “stress?”)

Noun

tutu (plural tutus)

1. (New Zealand) Any of the genus Coriaria of shrubs and trees found in New Zealand.

   Synonyms: toot plant, tupakihi

Derived terms

• tutin

Etymology 3

From Maori tutū (“mischievous, disobedient”).

Pronunciation

• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈtʊtʉː/

Verb

tutu (third-person singular simple present tutus, present participle tutuing, simple past and past participle tutued)

1. (New Zealand, childish) to fiddle or mess around with something.
   • 2016 July 14, “New Plymouth sign maker invests in enormous flatbed printer”, in Stuff‎^[1]:

     "There were seven dudes here for a week just showing me how to use it and I just wanted them to leave so I could start tutuing with it."

Chuukese

Verb

tutu

1. to shower

Coatepec Nahuatl

Noun

tutu

1. bird

Finnish

Etymology 1

From French tutu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtutu/, [ˈt̪ut̪u]
• Rhymes: -utu
• Syllabification^(key): tu‧tu

Noun

tutu

1. tutu (garment)

Declension

Inflection of tutu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		tutu	tutut
genitive		tutun	tutujen
partitive		tutua	tutuja
illative		tutuun	tutuihin
		singular	plural
nominative		tutu	tutut
accusative	nom.	tutu	tutut
	gen.	tutun
genitive		tutun	tutujen
partitive		tutua	tutuja
inessive		tutussa	tutuissa
elative		tutusta	tutuista
illative		tutuun	tutuihin
adessive		tutulla	tutuilla
ablative		tutulta	tutuilta
allative		tutulle	tutuille
essive		tutuna	tutuina
translative		tutuksi	tutuiksi
instructive		—	tutuin
abessive		tututta	tutuitta
comitative		—	tutuineen

Possessive forms of tutu (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	tutuni	tutumme
2nd person	tutusi	tutunne
3rd person	tutunsa

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtutuˣ/, [ˈt̪ut̪u(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -utu
• Syllabification^(key): tu‧tu

Verb

tutu

1. inflection of tutua:
   1. indicative present connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative present/present connegative

Anagrams

• tuut

French

Etymology

Alteration of cucu, which is itself a reduplicated form of cul (“butt, bum, arse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty.ty/

Noun

tutu m (plural tutus)

1. tutu

Further reading

• “tutu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /túː.tù/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [túː.tɪ̀]

Noun

tūtù m (possessed form tūtùn)

1. (childish or humorous) poop

Kapampangan

Etymology

Cognate with Tagalog totoo

Adjective

tutu

1. true; genuine

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tuˈtu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tuˈtu/

• Rhymes: -u

Noun

tutu m (plural tutus)

1. tutu (ballet skirt)
2. (slang) money
   • 1971, "Donald, Meu Sobrinho", O Pato Donald #1000 (English text: 1952, "The Hypno-Gun", Walt Disney's Comics #145)

     Tio Patinhas: Mas eu lhe emprestei um cruzado para comprar um livro! Lembra-se?
     Ademar: Sim, eu me lembro! Mas eu já li o livro! E não preciso mais pagar! […] Sim, você tem tutu de sobra! Não lhe fará falta êsse cruzeirinho.

     Uncle Scrooge: But I loaned you a dollar to buy a book! Don't you remember?
     Rockjaw: Sure I remember! But I've read the book! I don't need to pay you now! […] And, besides, you've got lots of money! You don't need the dollar!

Rapa Nui

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

tutu

1. burn

Romanian

Etymology

From French tutu.

Noun

tutu n (plural tutuuri)

1. tutu

Declension

Declension of tutu

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) tutu	tutul	(niște) tutuuri	tutuurile
genitive/dative	(unui) tutu	tutului	(unor) tutuuri	tutuurilor
vocative	tutule		tutuurilor

Sechura

Alternative forms

• xoto (Spruce's orthography)

Noun

tutu

1. water

References

• Matthias Urban, El vocabulario sechurano de Richard Spruce, in Lexis volume XXXIX (2) 2015, citing Baltasar Jaime Martínez Compañón

Swedish

Noun

tutu c

1. tutu

Declension

Declension of tutu
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	tutu	tutun	tutuer	tutuerna
Genitive	tutus	tutuns	tutuers	tutuernas

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtu.tu]

Verb

tutu

1. (transitive) to pound
2. (transitive) to mash
3. (transitive) to punch (with one's fist)

Conjugation

Conjugation of tutu
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	totutu	fotutu	mitutu
2nd	notutu	nitutu
3rd	Masculine	otutu	itutu, yotutu†
Feminine	motutu
Neuter	itutu
† - archaic

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Thao

Noun

tutu

1. (anatomy) breast

Tiruray

Noun

tutu

1. (anatomy) breast

Tsou

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tutu

1. (anatomy) pupil

Yosondúa Mixtec

Etymology 1

From Proto-Mixtec *tútù, from a Mixe-Zoquean language, from Proto-Mixe-Zoque *toto.

Noun

tutu

1. paper
2. document
3. book

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

tutu

1. (intransitive) whistle

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

tutu

1. together

Derived terms

• stutu

References

• Beaty de Farris, Kathryn; et al. (2012) Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)‎^[2] (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 81–82