tootle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A soft toot sound.
    — 1891, Thirteen Essays on Education, London: Percival & Co., E. W. Howson, “The Teaching of Music in Public Schools,” p. 37, No one, least of all those with a musical ear, can take a form or even read a book in close proximity to the ineffectual tootle of a flute, the maddening squeaks of a raw fiddler, or the spasmodic grunts of a euphonium.
  2. A trip or excursion. colloquial
    — In between, is Granny May’s only daughter Juliet. A wonderful character who still joins me on the odd tootle.
动词 v.
  1. To make a soft toot sound. intransitive
    — Now the scythe the morn salutes, In the meadow tinkling soon; While on mellow-tootling flutes Sweetly breathes the shepherd’s tune.
  2. To play (a musical instrument) making such a sound. transitive
    — A young, fresh-faced man, sitting by the driver, tootled a tandem horn.
  3. To go (somewhere); to amble aimlessly. colloquial,intransitive
    — I suppose we’d better tootle back to the ballroom.
  4. To transport (someone somewhere). colloquial,transitive
    — […] he would just see if his shover had enough in the tank to tootle them down to Warborough […]

词形变化

tootles present,singular,third-person tootling participle,present tootled participle,past tootled past tootles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
tootler

词源

词源 1
From toot + -le, frequentative.
词源 2
From toot + -le, frequentative.
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