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tut

/tʌt/

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Northern England/tʊt/

tut interjection: tut tut; an expression of disapproval.

Interjection

  1. Tut tut; an expression of disapproval.
    Synonyms:
    tut tut
  2. Hush; be silent.

Verb (1)

tut (third-person singular simple present tuts, present participle tutting, simple past and past participle tutted)

  1. To make a tut tut sound of disapproval.

Noun (1)

IPA/t(j)uːt/

tut (plural tuts)

  1. (Internet slang and Oxford University slang) A tutorial.

Noun (2)

tut (plural tuts)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A hassock.

Noun (3)

tut (plural tuts)

  1. (obsolete) A piece of work.

Noun (4)

tut (uncountable)

  1. (Southern-England) Rubbish.
    • Such stupidness is mad 'cause nothing underfoot comes to nothing less to add to a load of old tut.1977, Ian Drury, the Blockheads, Clever Trevor
    • Cracking excuse: credible, watertight and yet patently a load of old tut.2012, M.T. Maguire, The Wrong Stuff: K'Barthan Series: Part 2

Verb (2)

tut (third-person singular simple present tuts, present participle tutting, simple past and past participle tutted)

  1. (obsolete) To work by the piece; to carry out tut-work.

Verb (3)

tut (third-person singular simple present tuts, present participle tutting, simple past and past participle tutted)

  1. To dance in the style known as tutting.

Noun (5) capitalized: TUT

TUT (plural TUTs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of time under tension.

Proper noun capitalized: Tut

IPA/tuːt/

Tut

  1. (informal) Nickname for Tutankhamon.

Synonyms of tut

Forms of tut

Verb
third-person singular presenttuts
present participletutting
past participletutted
pasttutted
Noun
pluraltuts
pluralTUTs

Origin of tut

Imitative.

Shortening of tutorial.

Compare Swedish tut (“a point, pipe, tube”), Danish tut (“a cornet”).

Words formed from tut

Phrases with tut

Words that rhyme with tut

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Questions about tut

What does tut mean?
Tut means tut tut; an expression of disapproval.
What part of speech is tut?
Tut can be an interjection, a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce tut?
Tut is pronounced /tʌt/.

Words near tut in the dictionary

  1. tussy-mussies
  2. tussy-mussy
  3. Tustin
  4. Tustins
  5. Tuszynski
  6. tut
  7. tut tut
  8. tut tuts
  9. tut-ball
  10. tut-mouthed
  11. tut-tut

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tut (page history and authors); TUT (page history and authors); Tut (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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