tutu

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

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtutu/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtuːtuː/

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• Rhymes: -uːtuː

tutu (plural tutus)

1. A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.

   The ballet dancer representing the swan wore a white tutu.

Borrowed from Maori tutu.

• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): [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

• tutin

From Maori tutū (“mischievous, disobedient”).

• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /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.
   • 2016 July 14, “New Plymouth sign maker invests in enormous flatbed printer”, in Stuff‎^[1]:

     "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."

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /tutu/ [t̪u.t̪u]
• Rhymes: -utu
• Hyphenation: tu‧tu

tutu inan

1. pipe, tube

   Synonym: hodi

• “tutu”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “tutu”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

tutu

1. to shower

tutu

1. bird

• IPA^(key): [ˈtutu]

tutu

1. feminine accusative singular of tuten

From French tutu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtutu/, [ˈt̪ut̪u]
• Rhymes: -utu
• Hyphenation^(key): tu‧tu

tutu

1. tutu (garment)

• “tutu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

• IPA^(key): /ˈtutuˣ/, [ˈt̪ut̪u(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -utu
• Hyphenation^(key): tu‧tu

tutu

1. inflection of tutua:
   1. indicative present connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative present/present connegative

• tuut

Alteration of cucu, which is itself a reduplicated form of cul (“butt, bum, arse”).

• IPA^(key): /ty.ty/

tutu m (plural tutus)

1. tutu

• “tutu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /túː.tù/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [túː.tɪ̀]

tūtù m (possessed form tūtùn)

1. (childish or humorous) poop

Ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuqu (“true; real”). Compare Tagalog totoo and Cebuano tuo (“to believe”).

• IPA^(key): /tʊˈtuʔ/ [tʊˈtuʔ]
• Hyphenation: tu‧tu

tutû

1. truth

tutû

1. true

• Rhymes: -u

tutu m (plural tutus)

1. tutu (ballet skirt)
2. (slang) money
   • 1971, "Donald, Meu Sobrinho", O Pato Donald #1000 (English text: 1952, "The Hypno-Gun", Walt Disney's Comics #145)

     Tio Patinhas: Mas eu lhe emprestei um cruzado para comprar um livro! Lembra-se?
     Ademar: Sim, eu me lembro! Mas eu já li o livro! E não preciso mais pagar! […] Sim, você tem tutu de sobra! Não lhe fará falta êsse cruzeirinho.

     Uncle Scrooge: But I loaned you a dollar to buy a book! Don't you remember?
     Rockjaw: Sure I remember! But I've read the book! I don't need to pay you now! […] And, besides, you've got lots of money! You don't need the dollar!

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tutu

1. burn

Borrowed from French tutu.

tutu n (plural tutuuri)

1. tutu

• xoto (Spruce's orthography)

tutu

1. water

• Matthias Urban, El vocabulario sechurano de Richard Spruce, in Lexis volume XXXIX (2) 2015, citing Baltasar Jaime Martínez Compañón

• toetoe (Dutch-based spelling)

Unknown. Probably imitative.

• IPA^(key): /tu.tu/

tutu

1. horn (bone outgrowth on the head of some mammals)
2. horn (musical instrument)
3. horn (of a car)

• Wilner, John, editor (2003-2007), “tutu”, in Languages of Suriname, 5th edition, SIL International, Sranan-English Dictionary

tutu c

1. tutu

• IPA^(key): [ˈtu.tu]

tutu

1. (transitive) to pound
2. (transitive) to mash
3. (transitive) to punch (with one's fist)

Conjugation of tutu
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	totutu	fotutu	mitutu
2nd	notutu	nitutu
3rd	Masculine	otutu	itutu, yotutu†
Feminine	motutu
Neuter	itutu
† - archaic

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

tutu

1. (anatomy) breast

tutu

1. (anatomy) breast

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tutu

1. (anatomy) pupil

• titù (Ekiti)
• tutùn (Eastern Akoko)

From a partial reduplication of tù (“to be cold”). Compare with Olukumi tutùn, Itsekiri tùn. Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruba *-tũ̀, ultimately from Proto-Edekiri *-tũ̀.

• IPA^(key): /tū.tù/

tutù or tútù

1. to be cold or cool

   Antonyms: gbóná, móoru

2. to be moist; to be wet

   Antonym: gbẹ

tútù

1. cold, cool, raw
2. wet, moist

• Akinkugbe explains that the form with a mid-tone "u" is said to represent a "verbal form," while the one with the high tone "ú" represent an adjectival form. Thus the noun forms with the prefix ò- are nominalized forms of the verb meaning or the adjectival meaning, but are used synonymously.

• òtútù (“coldness”); òtutù
• ẹ̀rọ amóhuntutù (“refrigerator”)

From Proto-Mixtec *tútù, from a Mixe-Zoquean language, from Proto-Mixe-Zoque *toto.

tutu

1. paper
2. document
3. book

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tutu

1. (intransitive) whistle

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tutu

1. together

• stutu

• Beaty de Farris, Kathryn, et al. (2012) Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)‎^[3] (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 81–82