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tutting

tutting is the present participle and gerund of tut.

Meaning of tut

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.

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.

See all 10 meanings of tut

Noun (1)

tutting (plural tuttings)

  1. The act of making a tut sound in disapproval.
    • For all his tuttings about inexperienced amateurs, he had not taken in a word that Nansen had said.2011, Fergus Fleming, Ninety Degrees North: The Quest For The North Pole

Noun (2)

tutting (plural tuttings)

  1. A modern street dance style in which dancers position body parts in angular positions, especially moving the hands and fingers in intricate ways (finger-tutting).

Forms of tutting

pluraltuttings

Origin of tutting

From the English nickname Tut for Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, likening the geometric positions and right angles of the dance style to the perceived angularity of ancient Egyptian at.

Words formed from tutting

Phrases with tutting

Questions about tutting

What does tutting mean?
Tutting means the act of making a tut sound in disapproval.
What is tutting the present participle and gerund of?
Tutting is the present participle and gerund of tut.
What part of speech is tutting?
Tutting is a noun.
What is the plural of tutting?
The plural of tutting is tuttings.

Words near tutting in the dictionary

  1. tutti frutti
  2. tutti quanti
  3. tutti-frutti
  4. tutti-fruttis
  5. tutties
  6. tutting
  7. tuttings
  8. tuttis
  9. Tuttle
  10. Tuttletown
  11. Tutton

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tutting (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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