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totty en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

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• /ˈtɒti/

Meanings

1. (Ireland, UK, slang, uncountable) sexually attractive women considered collectively; usually connoting a connection with the upper class.
2. (Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable) an individual sexually attractive woman
   • The doctor attended a fancy dress ball dressed as Star Trek's Dr Spock but suddenly the costume split open and his phaser found its way into some totty. 2006, Tonto Greenberg, J Bannister, The Blue Book : V. 1, Banland Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 32:
   • Some posh totty, who was more than a little bit of a babe, just walks up and makes Eddie pull her, against his will almost. 2006, Richard Taylor, Eddie Shore 4 Jo, Lulu Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 29:
   • The mother screamed that Ali was a posh totty who held her nose up at ordinary folk with babies. 2005, Georgina Hunter-Jones, Peckham Diamonds, Fly Fizzi Publishing, →ISBN, page 19:

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Relateds

hotty

Synonyms

talent

totty en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

Compare totter.

Meanings

1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) unsteady; dizzy, tottery, or rickety
   • I ate, drank, and was invigorated; when, to add to my good luck, the Sacristan, too totty to discharge his duty of turnkey fitly, locked the door beside the staple, so that it fell ajar. 1820, Walter Scott, chapter 42, in Ivanhoe:
   • I tell thee, fellow, I was somewhat totty when I received the good knight's blow, or I had kept my ground under it. 1820, Walter Scott, chapter 32, in Ivanhoe:
   • Then came October full of merry glee: / For yet his noule [head] was totty of the must, / Which he was treading in the wine-fats see, […] c. 1600, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book VII (Two Cantos of Mutabilitie), Canto VII:

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totty en · ADJ · etymology 3

Etymology

From tot (“small child”).

Meanings

1. (Scotland) Tiny, wee.
   • She would meet me with a summerbag: shoes and the little black number, though it had a totey hole at the shoulder […]. 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 6:

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totty en · NOUN · etymology 4

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of toty (“low-caste laborer”).
   alt of toty

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