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Date: 1800-1900
Origin: toot

tootle

 verb
     
Related topics: Music, Outdoor
toot‧le [intransitive] British English informal
1DLOTTC [always + adverb/preposition] old-fashioned to move slowly in a car:
We spent the afternoon tootling along the coast.
2APM to play an instrument that you blow:
tootling away on a flute
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