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tutu

/ˈtuːtuː/US/ˈtutu/

tutu noun: a ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.

tutu: a ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting
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Noun (1)

tutu (plural tutus)

  1. A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.
    • The ballet dancer representing the swan wore a white tutu.

Noun (2)

New Zealand[ˈtʉːˌtʉː]

tutu (plural tutus)

  1. (New Zealand) Any of certain members of genus Coriaria of shrubs and trees found in New Zealand, including Coriaria arborea and Coriaria pottsiana, used by the Maori to make a sweetener, but toxic when not properly prepared.
    Synonyms:
    toot plant, tupakihi

Verb

New Zealand/ˈtʊtʉː/

tutu (third-person singular simple present tutus, present participle tutuing, simple past and past participle tutued)

  1. (New Zealand, childish) to fiddle or mess around with something.
    • "There were seven dudes here for a week just showing me how to use it and I just wanted them to leave so I could start tutuing with it."2016 July 14, “New Plymouth sign maker invests in enormous flatbed printer”, in Stuff

Proper noun capitalized: Tutu

Tutu (plural Tutus)

  1. A surname.

tutu meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

tutu in Hindi

तूतू

tutu in Marathi

टुटू

tutu in Urdu

توتو, ٹیوٹو

tutu in Bengali

টুটু
More languagesFewer languages
tutu in Telugu
టుటు, ట్యుటూ
tutu in Malayalam
ടുട്ടു
tutu in Kannada
ಟುಟು
tutu in Punjabi
ਟੂਟੂ, ਤੂਤੂ
tutu in Gujarati
ટ્યુટુ
tutu in Odia
ଟୁଟୁ
tutu in Nepali
टुटु
tutu in Vietnamese
váy xoè

Synonyms of tutu

Forms of tutu

Noun
pluraltutus
Verb
third-person singular presenttutus
present participletutuing
past participletutued
pasttutued
Proper noun
pluralTutus

Plural of tutu: tutus

Origin of tutu

Borrowed from French tutu, from cucu (“bum, bottom”), playful reduplication of cul (“arse”).

Borrowed from Māori tutu.

From Māori tutū (“mischievous, disobedient”).

Words formed from tutu

Questions about tutu

What does tutu mean?
Tutu means a ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.
What is tutu in Hindi?
Tutu in Hindi is तूतू. See Tutu meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is tutu?
Tutu can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce tutu?
Tutu is pronounced /ˈtutu/ (US).
What is the plural of tutu?
The plural of tutu is tutus.

Words near tutu in the dictionary

  1. Tutton's salt
  2. Tutton's salts
  3. Tuttons
  4. Tutts
  5. tutty
  6. tutu
  7. Tutubigan
  8. tutued
  9. Tutuila
  10. Tutuilan
  11. Tutuilans

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tutu (page history and authors); Tutu (page history and authors); tutu (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tutu (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tutu (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tutu (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tutu (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tutu (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tutu (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tutu (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tutu (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tutu (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tutu (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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