Crossword clues for tootle
tootle
- Play a horn
- Play a fife
- Mosey (along)
- Fiddle around on a flute
- Amble (along)
- Use a recorder
- Sound of casual playing on a musical instrument
- Sound of a fife
- Recorder sound
- Playfully play a piccolo
- Play, as a recorder
- Play the recorder, say
- Play casually
- Play an ocarina monotonously
- Little Golden Book about a baby locomotive
- Flutist's warm-up
- Flautist's flourish
- Emulate Galway
- Casually play a flute
- Flute sound
- Play the flute
- Play the piccolo
- Fife sound
- Play a flute casually
- Drive along leisurely
- Pied Piper's sound
- Sound of tooting softly and repeatedly as on a flute
- Practice the horn
- Continuously blow on a flute
- Blow a flute
- Emulate a flutist
- Fiddle with a flute
- Play on a flute
- Love to let rip? Drive slowly
- Blow one's horn
- Play a piccolo
- Fiddle around with a flute
- Play the fife
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tootle \Too"tle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tootled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tootling.] [Freq. of toot.]
To toot gently, repeatedly, or continuously, on a wind
instrument, as a flute; also, to make a similar noise by any
means. ``The tootling robin.''
--John Clare.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1820, frequentative of toot (v.). Related: Tootled; tootling.\n
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To make a soft toot sound 2 To amble aimlessly
WordNet
n. sound of tooting softly and repeatedly as on a flute
v. toot continuously; "tootling car horns"
Wikipedia
Tootle (ISBN 0307020975) is a children's book written by Gertrude Crampton and illustrated by Tibor Gergely in 1945. It is part of Simon & Schuster's Little Golden Books series. As of 2001, it was the all-time third best-selling hardcover children's book in English.
Usage examples of "tootle".
As it tottered up to the oversize fungi, a sprite clad in flowing frillwork appeared from nowhere to tootle on a small, cochlear horn.
Looking down, she saw pombi feet, Fon feet, and Mavin feet all in movement, pom, pom, pom, pom, as the bright music tootled and bammed around them.
Neal fishes a Bakelite ocarina out of his shirt pocket and tootles a thin, horrible note.
All around them tumblers tumbled, musicians tootled and squeaked, and troupes of players, jugglers, wrestlers, mountebanks, pickpockets, cutpurses, prostitutes, quacksalvers, thimbleriggers, blagueurs, and the like went energetically and often noisily about their work.
It felt like the car was on rails, a toy train tootling through the palmy night.
Church of Elish as a major player among the religions of the world, the bringer of an old truth made new, but Kelsey knew from the pounding of the drums, the clanging of the cymbals, the tootling of the flutes, that what he had dreaded was about to happen.
The first to pass is Tootles, not the least brave but the most unfortunate of all that gallant band.
They talked of Cinderella, and Tootles was confident that his mother must have been very like her.
Still no sound, except a little thud from Tootles as he dropped on his knees.
They were very ashamed, but Tootles gave the sole of his shoe, and it made an excellent knocker.
To be sure, she did not mind noise, but she simply would not have them grabbing things, and then excusing themselves by saying that Tootles had pushed their elbow.
Once Tootles began, which was not very often, he had a silly way of going on.
And he sang a merry song and chuffed and tootled his way across the grassy plain.
Shrill, but commanding, skirling, a twisting, tootling thing that would not conventionally be called a melody, but could be nothing else, the bagpipes called out to her.
In the event of assault, one brief hypersonic tootle would fetch the immediate attention of several roaming packs of Bichons Frisés.