toots

[ toots ]

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).

toots

/ tʊts /

noun

1. informal.
   darling; sweetheart

Word History and Origins

Origin of toots¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of toots¹

C20: perhaps related to earlier dialect toot worthless person, of obscure origin

Example Sentences

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

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 Seattle Times

Related Words

• honk