tootling

Verb

tootle (third-person singular simple present tootles, present participle tootling, simple past and past participle tootled)

1. (intransitive) To make a soft toot sound.
   • Now the scythe the morn salutes,
     In the meadow tinkling soon;
     While on mellow-tootling flutes
     Sweetly breathes the shepherd’s tune.1820, John Clare, “Summer Morning”, in Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, London: Taylor and Hessey, page 145
2. (transitive) To play (a musical instrument) making such a sound.
   • A young, fresh-faced man, sitting by the driver, tootled a tandem horn.1917, Horace Annesley Vachell, chapter 11, in Fishpingle: A Romance of the Countryside, New York: George H. Doran, page 204
3. (colloquial, intransitive) To go (somewhere); to amble aimlessly.
   • I suppose we’d better tootle back to the ballroom.1933, Dorothy L. Sayers, “The Queen’s Square”, in A Treasury of Sayers Stories, London: Gollancz, published 1958, page 48
4. (colloquial, transitive) To transport (someone somewhere).
   • […] he would just see if his shover had enough in the tank to tootle them down to Warborough […]1911, Agnes and Egerton Castle, chapter 1, in The Composer, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, page 4

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