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Definition of Tootling
1. tootle [v] - See also: tootle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tootling
Literary usage of Tootling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854)
"tootling. The chirping and whistling of singing birds. ... While on mellow tootling
flute Sweetly breaths the shepherd's tune. Ibid. p. 133. ..."
2. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"... who have depicted the shepherd as ever shedding tears of love, and tootling
upon a plaintive pipe. I fear that Chloe or Phyllis would have met with ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"It is applied also to the chirping and sometimes to the song of birds. tootling, sb.
a playing on a wind instrument: a chirping or singing of birds. ..."
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