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tot

noun
/tɒt/UK/tɑt/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots tot, a shortened form of totum (“small child; tot”), of uncertain origin, perhaps shortened from totter (“to move in an unsteady way”), Compare tottle, also Old Norse tottr (“name of a dwarf”), Swedish tutte (“small child”), Danish tommeltot (“little child”).

  1. borrowed from tot

Definitions

  1. A small child.

    • He learned to run when he was just a tot.
    • When I was but a tiny tot, I knocked the neighbors cold / For I became to walk when I was scarcely one year old
    • Death conditioning begins at eighteen months. Every tot spends two mornings a week in a Hospital for the Dying. All the best toys are kept there, and they get chocolate cream on death days.

  2. A small amount of liquor, (particularly) a small measure of rum.

    • Then I give them a tot of rum apiece, as they sit huddled in their blankets.
    • And tot of rum to send him warm to sleep.

  3. Ellipsis of tater tot.

  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. A small cup, usually made of tin.

    2. A foolish fellow.

      • Whoe answeared like a toute, or a maddman, as he was, that he was for the Kinge.

    3. To sum or total.

      • There are, of course, many ways to proceed from here, the most likely being that you, as an experienced tradesman, would simply know what these amounts come to (in terms of groups of ten) and can tot them up in your head.

    4. To mark (a debt) with the word tot (Latin for "so much"), indicating that it was good or…

      To mark (a debt) with the word tot (Latin for "so much"), indicating that it was good or collectible for the amount specified.

      • a totted debt

    5. A total, an addition of a long column of figures.

    6. Initialism of Trail of Tears.

    7. Initialism of tip of the tongue.

      • When experiencing a TOT, people not only retrieve a blocked word's sound and meaning; they also know some of its grammatical properties.

    8. Initialism of turnover tax.

    9. Initialism of transfer of technology.

    10. Initialism of time over target

    11. Initialism of time on target

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA