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tot

Pronunciation: /tɒt/

The English word “tot” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A small child.
  2. A small amount of liquor, (particularly) a small measure of rum.
  3. A small cup, usually made of tin.
  4. A foolish fellow.
  5. A total, an addition of a long column of figures.

verb

  1. To sum or total.
  2. To mark (a debt) with the word tot (Latin for "so much"), indicating that it was good or collectible for the amount specified.

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots tot, a shortened form of totum (“small child; tot”), of uncertain origin, perhaps shortened from totter (“to move in an unsteady way”), Compare tottle, also Old Norse tottr (“name of a dwarf”), Swedish tutte (“small child”), Danish tommeltot (“little child”).

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