Lexicographical Neighbors of Tottie
Literary usage of Tottie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"Tot rakers (popular), men who go about picking up odds and ends from refuse heaps.
Also " tot - pickers." From tot, anything very small. tottie (popular) ..."
2. Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896) by John Stephen Farmer (1896)
"... that glistened Like two pretty strings of pearls; Down upon my 'bread and
cheese' Did I drop and murmur, 'Please Be my "storm and strife," dear tottie, ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
"... but she greeted me with her sister's own smile. and, as I reached the Beauchamps,
Billy, with tottie at his heels, came bounding out to meet me. ..."
4. A Collection of Curious and Interesting Epitaphs Copied from the Monuments by Frederick Teague Cansick (1872)
"Sacred to the memory of CHARLES tottie, Esq., For more than Fifty Years Swedish
and Norwegian Consul General in this Country. Born 22nd Oct., 1781, ..."
5. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901)
"Tottenham.— Local ; v. Tollman. Crockford, o, 4. tottie, Totty.—Bapt. ...
George tottie and Eliz. Peri- man, -widow : Marriage Lie. (London), 1789. ..."
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