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Definition of Tot up
1. Verb. Determine the sum of. "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"
Related verbs: Add, Add Together
Generic synonyms: Count, Enumerate, Number, Numerate
Derivative terms: Addable, Adder, Addible, Addition, Additive, Additive, Sum, Sum, Sum, Summation, Sum, Sum, Sum, Tally, Total, Total
Definition of Tot up
1. Verb. (transitive) to calculate the sum of a number of numbers or quantities ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tot Up
Literary usage of Tot up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"... men who steal copper from ships' bottoms in the Thames. TOSS, a measure of
sprats.—Billingsgate. Tot-up, to add together,—as columns of figures, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"(School), tote, addition sums; to tot up, to add up, abbreviation of "total."
Tote (popular), a hard drinker. From old English totted, drunken. ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... to tot up an account, to touch each item as you cast them up ; to tot one's /'s,
to give the short cross stroke. The dim. tittle signifies the dot over ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"Topping, part. adj. superior; first-rate. Tot, rmd tot up, I.'. n. to add up;
cast up accounts. ..."
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