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Definition of Teetotums
1. teetotum [n] - See also: teetotum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Teetotums
Literary usage of Teetotums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Problems of Life and Mind by George Henry Lewes (1879)
"He also relates that one day after dinner he amused himself with watching teetotums
spin round. The rest of the afternoon and evening, till eleven o'clock, ..."
2. Problems of Life and Mind by George Henry Lewes (1880)
"He also relates that one day after dinner be amused himself with watching teetotums
spin round. The rest of the afternoon and evening, till eleven o'clock, ..."
3. The Young Folk's Cyclopædia of Games and Sports by John Denison Champlin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick (1890)
"Little tops called teetotums are spun by twirling them with the fingers. ...
teetotums are used in playing several games, to determine the moves, ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1888)
"That inquirer started with a system of waltzing incandescent teetotums, to put
it in quite unscientific ... His successor teaches us how these teetotums or ..."
5. A Book on Building, Civil and Ecclesiastical: With the Theory of Domes, and by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (1876)
"... and two of the orthodox teetotums of that style (perhaps intended for tea-urns
appropriate to ' Temperance ') at each corner of the gable, ..."
6. Cassell's Complete Book of Sports and Pastimes: Being a Compendium of Out by Cassell & Co, Cassell (London) (1896)
"Originally teetotums had four sides only, which were respectively marked with
... A number of tops, teetotums, or champions of different colours are spun in ..."
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