tut-tut
Origin of tut-tut
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How to use tut-tut in a sentence
But it seems fruitless to tut-tut at them about it, since they have been hearing these complaints for decades.
More on Whether We're Paying too Much for College | Megan McArdle | September 11, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTPundits often tut-tut about how presidential campaigns start too early, long before most Americans care.
At last the footsteps of Nurse could be heard, and over them, the quick 'tut-tut-tuts' that voiced her irritation.
Sinister Street, vol. 1 | Compton MackenzieWow-wow-wow-wow-wow; tut-tut-tut-tut-tut (and other old-gentleman noises).
Samson watched his new friend narrowly, whose countenance was profoundly piteous, and his teeth and lip made a "tut-tut!"
The Entailed Hat | George Alfred Townsend
At intervals nervous machine guns chattered their ghoulish gibberish or tut-tut-ted away chidingly like finicky spinsters.
"And they thought we wouldn't fight" | Floyd GibbonsThe call of the male is often answered by the female with the syllables, tut-tut, not unlike a clucking chicken.
Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) | Arthur Cleveland Bent
British Dictionary definitions for tut-tut
/ (pronounced as alveolar clicks; spelling pron ˈtʌtˈtʌt) /
an exclamation of mild reprimand, disapproval, or surprise
(intr) to express disapproval by the exclamation of "tut-tut"
the act of tut-tutting
- Often shortened to: tut
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