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totting en · NOUN · etymology 1

Meanings

  1. The act of adding up; an addition.
    • This remarkable "paying off" did not pass off without a record for, strangely enough, the sheet of paper on which Hullock did his tottings was the only thing found in the mate's cabin — as reported from Gibraltar. 1929, Laurence J. Keating, The Great Mary Celeste Hoax: A Famous Sea Mystery Exposed:

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totting en · VERB · etymology 1

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of tot
    form of tot

totting en · VERB · etymology 2

Meanings

  1. (slang) Collecting rags, bones, or other junk to sell on.
    • […] junk collectors who go 'totting' for old clothes and broken furniture around Shepherd's Bush […] 2011, Christopher Stevens, The Masters of Sitcom: From Hancock to Steptoe: