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totty

/ˈtɒti/

totty noun: sexually attractive women considered collectively; usually connoting a connection with the upper class. Also the alternative form of toty.

Noun (1)

totty (countable and uncountable, plural totties)

  1. (Ireland, UK, slang, uncountable) sexually attractive women considered collectively; usually connoting a connection with the upper class.
  2. (Ireland, UK, slang) an individual sexually attractive woman
    • The mother screamed that Ali was a posh totty who held her nose up at ordinary folk with babies.2005, Georgina Hunter-Jones, Peckham Diamonds, Fly Fizzi Publishing, →ISBN, page 19
    • Some posh totty, who was more than a little bit of a babe, just walks up and makes Eddie pull her, against his will almost.2006, Richard Taylor, Eddie Shore 4 Jo, Lulu Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 29

Adjective (1)

totty (comparative more totty, superlative most totty)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) unsteady; dizzy, tottery, or rickety
    • Then came October full of merry glee: / For yet his noule [head] was totty of the must, / Which he was treading in the wine-fats see, […]c. 1600, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book VII (Two Cantos of Mutabilitie), Canto VII
    • I tell thee, fellow, I was somewhat totty when I received the good knight's blow, or I had kept my ground under it.1820, Walter Scott, chapter 32, in Ivanhoe

Adjective (2)

totty

  1. (Scotland) Tiny, wee.
    • She would meet me with a summerbag: shoes and the little black number, though it had a totey hole at the shoulder […].1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 6

Noun (2) capitalized: Totty

Totty (plural Totties)

  1. (archaic, offensive) Hottentot
    • Only the elite of the party are here assembled; for it would be little short of sacrelige for a Totty or a Caffre to presume to enter these sacred precincts, or to join in the conversation of the master1859, William and Robert Chambers, CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL OF POPULAR LITERATURE SCIENCE AND ARTS, London: W. & R. Chambers
    • Between the Totty and the Kaffir a deadly hatred exists, the former seeming to have a natural love for hunting the latter.1879, Alfred Wilks Drayson, Among the Zulus: The Adventures of Hans Sterk, South African Hunter and Pioneer, Griffith and Farran, page 338

Proper noun capitalized: Totty

Totty

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Tottie (“female name, short for Charlotte”).

Also used as

totty is also the alternative form of toty.

Examples of totty in a sentence

  • The doctor attended a fancy dress ball dressed as Star Trek's Dr Spock but suddenly the costume split open and his phaser found its way into some totty.2006, Tonto Greenberg, J Bannister, The Blue Book : V. 1, Banland Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 32:
  • I ate, drank, and was invigorated; when, to add to my good luck, the Sacristan, too totty to discharge his duty of turnkey fitly, locked the door beside the staple, so that it fell ajar.1820, Walter Scott, chapter 42, in Ivanhoe:

Synonyms of totty

Forms of totty

Noun
pluraltotties
pluralTotties
Adjective
comparativemore totty
superlativemost totty
alternative formtoaty
alternative formtotey
alternative formtotie

Origin of totty

Compare totter.

From tot (“small child”).

Words that rhyme with totty

7 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about totty

What does totty mean?
Totty means sexually attractive women considered collectively; usually connoting a connection with the upper class.
How do you use totty in a sentence?
The doctor attended a fancy dress ball dressed as Star Trek's Dr Spock but suddenly the costume split open and his phaser found its way into some totty.
What part of speech is totty?
Totty can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce totty?
Totty is pronounced /ˈtɒti/.
What is the plural of totty?
The plural of totty is totties.

Words near totty in the dictionary

  1. Totton
  2. Totton and Eling
  3. Tottori
  4. Tottoris
  5. tottring
  6. totty
  7. tottyhead
  8. tottyheads
  9. totuava
  10. totuavas
  11. totus porcus

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