toots

American  

[toots] / tʊts /

noun

Slang.

1. an affectionate or familiar term of address; honey; baby (sometimes offensive when used to strangers, casual acquaintances, subordinates, etc., especially by a male to a female).

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toots British  

/ tʊts /

noun

1. informal  darling; sweetheart

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Etymology

Origin of toots

First recorded in 1940–45; toot(sie) ¹ + -s ⁴

Example Sentences

City Hall, which dates to the 16th century, toots out a cheerful jazz bugle call several times a day.

From The Wall Street Journal

The conductor would signal the engineer that passengers needed to disembark, and the engineer “would respond with two toots of the whistle,” he writes.

From Seattle Times

The new field of digital bioacoustics is machine learning to try decipher animal speak, including honeybee toots and quacks and woops.

From Scientific American

From the calls of merry market traders to the toots of check-out tills, there are many visuals and sounds that make up a high street in England.

From BBC

It shares some similarities with Twitter, but there are some big differences - and not just that its version of tweets are officially called “toots.”

From Washington Times

Related Words

• honk