tootle
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Is tootle a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To make a soft toot sound.Examples: "Now the scythe the morn salutes, In the meadow tinkling soon; While on mellow-tootling flutes Sweetly breathes the shepherd’s tune."; "We know the old lady is upstairs and that she is quite alone in the house and therefore it would be perfectly useless for her to tootle on her bedroom bell."; "Their booth did not have so many customers as did the other booths where the tootling laugh of Maybelle Merriwether sounded and Fanny Elsing’s giggles and the Whiting girls’ repartee made merriment."intransitive
2. (transitive) To play (a musical instrument) making such a sound.Examples: "A young, fresh-faced man, sitting by the driver, tootled a tandem horn."; "[…] Cecil can tootle a pretty fair sax, at that, if the play happens to come up."transitive
3. (intransitive, colloquial) To go (somewhere); to amble aimlessly.Examples: "I suppose we’d better tootle back to the ballroom."; "‘When my old bike comes I shall tootle up and down the drive! Some swank!’"; "I was about to go, I thought I’d tootle down to the Coleherne perhaps, then I wouldn’t be too far away if the bleep went."colloquialintransitive
4. (transitive, colloquial) To transport (someone somewhere).Examples: "[…] he would just see if his shover had enough in the tank to tootle them down to Warborough […]"; "Say I pick you up and tootle you over with your hens."colloquialtransitive
noun (English)
1. (colloquial) A trip or excursion.Examples: "In between, is Granny May’s only daughter Juliet. A wonderful character who still joins me on the odd tootle."; "On weekends you can take a short tootle over to itsy-bitsy Pelican Island on a free ferry […]"colloquial
Definition source: Wiktionary