tootling
English
Noun
tootling (plural tootlings)
- The sound of a tootle.
- 1894, George Bernard Shaw, “Puccini: Manon Lescaut” in Louis Crompton (ed.), The Great Composers: Reviews and Bombardments by Bernard Shaw, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978, p. 307,
- […] raving through the mad scene in Lucia amid childish orchestral tootlings […]
- 1918, H. G. Wells, Joan and Peter, London: Cassell, Chapter 12, p. 491,
- Then with melodious tootlings and amidst guttural plaudits, a big white automobile carrying a glitter of uniforms had gone by, driven at a headlong pace.
- 1894, George Bernard Shaw, “Puccini: Manon Lescaut” in Louis Crompton (ed.), The Great Composers: Reviews and Bombardments by Bernard Shaw, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978, p. 307,
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