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▪ I. † tot, n.1 Obs. rare.
In 5 totte, 7 toute.
[Origin unascertained.]
A person of disordered brain, a simpleton, a fool.
c1425Cast. Persev. 2880 in Macro Plays 162 Werldlys good þou hast for-gon, & with tottys þou schalt be torn. c1440Promp. Parv. 497/2 Totte, supra in folte. Ibid. (MS. Winch.), Totte, fowle, supra in ff. [Ffolt idem quod folet, ffolette, ffatuellus]. a1660Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archæol. Soc.) I. 278 Whoe answeared like a toute, or a maddman, as he was, that he was for the Kinge.
▪ II. † tot, n.2 Obs.|tɒt|
Also 6–7 tott(e.
[f. tot v.1 (or its source).]
The word tot or letter T written against an item in an account to indicate that the amount specified has been received; hence, an item in an account; also generally, a note, jotting, or comment written down.
1529Gardiner Let. to Wolsey in St. Papers Hen. VIII I. 345 The copy..I sende unto Your Grace,..adding in the margyne tottes, wherby Your Grace may perceyve omne consilium rei gestæ. a1601Sir T. Fanshawe Pract. Exch. (1658) 71 After his said Secondary hath made up the Sheriffs second summ upon his De debitis plurimum, which be his Tots and upon his De pluribus debitis charge which be his greene wax, and his whole as before, or so many of them as he is charged with, hee causeth the Sheriffs forraigne accounts to be cast up. Ibid. 80 He maketh speciall tot against the same summe thus [etc.]. 1642C. Vernon Consid. Exch. 32 The greatest part of the Sheriffes totts and summes of money by him taken in charge at his apposals, would be set off and discharged. 1798T. Farrer in Manning Exch. of Pleas. (1819) II. App. 267 Such fines, recognizances and amerciaments, as each sheriff has received he answers by saying Tot, whereupon I [deputy clerk] mak that answer upon the roll of the estreat. When the sheriff receives part and not the whole, he answers Tot as to part, and Nil as to the rest.
▪ III. tot, n.3 colloq.|tɒt|
[Short for total or L. totum: see also tote n.1]
The total of an addition, sometimes having tot. written against it; hence, an addition sum; also (tot-up) the action of tot v.2: adding up, totalling. Also gen., the total number or amount.
[1690Pepys Mem. Royal Navy 36 Repaires, l. 132000, Sea-stores, l. 88000. Tot, 220,000.] 1755C. Charke Narr. Life Mrs. C. Charke 260 The above-mentioned notable Gentleman, with his wife and a young Fellow, besides our two selves, made up the whole Totte. 1857Londonderry Standard 26 Feb. 2/2 Forty monopolists whose numerical ‘tot’ is so oddly coincident with the history of Ali Baba. 1866Times 28 Apr. 5/6 He added up the gross ‘tots’ of the several poll books himself. 1871Standard 13 Feb., The task of going over the cards..and comparing the lists, and doing the general tot-up, is very arduous. 1879C. Marvin Our Public Offices 11, I fell upon the row of ‘tots’ with the same vigour. 1894Daily News 14 July 5/1 He has seen children in Standards IV and V using their fingers freely during the examination, and even trying to do ‘tots’ by this cumbrous method.
▪ IV. tot, n.4 colloq. or local.
[app. a recent word; recorded 1725. Origin uncertain. Tottr occurs in Icel. as the nickname of a dwarfish person, and tommel-tot as Danish for Tom Thumb; but no connexion has been traced.]
1. a. A very small or tiny child.
1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. i. ii, Wow! Jenny, can there greater pleasure be Than see sic wee tots toolying at your knee? 1865Cornh. Mag. Mar. 355 Her tiny trembling tot with yellow hair. 1896‘Ian Maclaren’ Kate Carnegie 25 I've had it since I was a little tot and could remember anything.
b. tot-o'er-seas, a local name of the Goldcrest.
1885Swainson Provinc. Names Birds 25 Goldcrest... From its tiny size. Tot o'er seas. 1895Newton Dict. Birds, Tot-o'er-seas, a name by which Regulus cristatus is said to be known on some parts of the east coast.
2. A very small drinking-vessel; a child's mug. (See also quot. 1845.) Chiefly dial.
1828Craven Gloss., Tot, a cup or glass. 1845Sir H. B. Edwardes in Mem. (1886) I. 33 That half-mad camel, who is overladen with tents and tots. [Note. Tin pots, out of which the European soldiers drink.] 1872Daily News 5 Sept., Dark figures [soldiers]..throw themselves down on the straw, and investigate into the contents of the mug or of the tot. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right xxvii, Give me that ‘tot’ that I see tied to your saddle. 1891Sale Catal. Glass Wks. Stourbridge, Twenty-seven tots. Two flower bowls.
3. A minute quantity of anything, esp. of drink; a dram; also, anything very small.
1828in Craven Gloss. 1847–78Halliwell, Tot, anything very small. East. 1856Kane Arctic Explor. II. vii. 78 We jabbed the stopper down the whiskey-tin and gave you a tot of it. 1878F. S. Williams Midl. Railw. 527 The hole is charged with gunpowder,—about a pint—or two ‘tots’..being usually enough. 1908Times 30 July 8/3 The issue of ‘tots of rum’ on cold nights was not only not desirable, but absolutely pernicious.
4. Comb.: tot lot N. Amer., a playground for small children; tot system S. Afr., a system of paying agricultural workers, esp. in vine-growing districts, part of their wages in ‘tots’ (usu. mugs) of wine.
1944Sun (Baltimore) 15 July 13/3 (heading) Pall Mall *tot lot open daily except Saturday. 1968Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 6 Dec. 41/4 Snow fails to stop Gold River children from enjoying recently completed tot-lot behind the community hall. 1977Ottawa Citizen 19 May 2/2 The plan includes..a ‘tot lot’ for pre-schoolers.
1926Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 12 Feb. 7 (heading) Liquor bill under fire—evils of the *tot system. 1953P. Abrahams Return to Goli ii. 77 The vicious ‘tot’-system which obtains in the wine-growing Cape valley..is ruining the health..of a very large number of Coloureds. 1974Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 24 Feb. 14 Asked whether he made use of the tot system, Mr. — said: [etc.].
▪ V. tot, n.5 slang.
[Origin unascertained: cf. tat n.5, v.3]
A dust-heap picker's name for a bone; whence by extension, anything worth picking from a refuse-heap or elsewhere. Hence ˈtotter, a rag-and-bone collector; ˈtotting, dust-heap picking.
1873Slang Dict. s.v., ‘Tot’ is a bone, but chiffoniers and cinder-hunters generally are called Tot-pickers nowadays. Totting also has its votaries on the banks of the Thames, where all kinds of flotsam and jetsam, from coals to carrion, are known as tots. 1880Law Rep., 5 Q.B.D. 369 The contents of the dust-bins consisted chiefly of cinders and ashes and the sweepings of the houses, but they also contained a number of articles thrown into them as refuse by the occupiers of the houses, and known as ‘tots’. 1891Daily News 11 Mar. 3/3 Costermongers, wood-cutters, and ‘totters’, men who lounged about areas in the hope of getting old bottles and things from servants. 1910Lond. City Mission Mag. May 85/2 The Totters. Up betimes, these queer people set out by the dozen, with sack or barrow, in quest of rags and bones, rubber, and bottles, scrap iron and cast-off clothing. Ibid., When all else fails, and one can stoop so low, a day's totting is bound to yield the cost of a night's lodging.
▪ VI. † tot, v.1 Obs.
[f. L. tot so much, so many; acc. to Blount, short for tot pecuniæ Regi debentur ‘so many sums of money are due to the king’.]
1. trans. To mark (an item in the sheriff's list) with the word tot or the letter T, showing that the amount had been levied, and was to be accounted for, by him. Cf. nichil, O.Ni. Also used in certain accounts between the Exchequer and other persons: see quot. 1785. Hence totting vbl. n.
[1368Act 42 Edw. III, c. 9 Est ordene..qe homme veie les dites estretes enseallees, & qe ce qest paie soit tottee, et meismes les estretes mandez as Viscontes sur la receite. transl. a Man shall see the same Estreats sealed, and that the same which is paid, be totted, and the same Estreats sent to the Sheriffs upon the Receipt.] 1530–1Act 22 Hen. VIII, c. 15 All other yssues and amercyamentes..whether they be totted or not totted, taken to the charge of the Shyryff or not taken to his charge. 1620J. Wilkinson Coroners & Sherifes 75 An ignorant Undersherif may both undoe his high Sherife and himselfe, both in this world and in the world to come by totting and nichiling. Ibid., If it bee totted, that is charged, though it can never be levied, it will now hardly be avoided, but it must be paid. a1726Sir G. Gilbert Treat. Crt. Exchequer vii. (1758) 115 If the Sheriff has levied any Part of these Debts he Totts it, and the Letter T is set upon such Sum. 1785MS. Dean's Bk. Canterb. Cathedr. lf. 129 Agreed that the process called Totting, in the Exchequer, for a share of the Post Fines, attended with great expence, and little or no advantage, be in future discontinued. 1798T. Farrer in Manning Exch. of Pleas (1819) II. App. 267 As to such sums as are totted by the sheriff.
2. transf. To note or distinguish (a name in a list) by some mark or a prick, e.g. to prick the sheriffs; also to make a note against a name in a list or a sum or item in an account; also, to write down by way of note, to jot down in writing.
1444Paston Lett. I. 55 Sir, ther arn xv. jurores abowe to certifie ye, as many as ye will: but lete these men that be tottid be certified, for thei be the rewleris. 1522Wolsey Let. to Hen. VIII in St. Papers I. 115 The Judges procedyd to election of your Schreffes..for thys yere; whos namys be comprisid in a byll of parchement herin closid; desyring Your Grace to tot and marcke suche oon of thre namyd for every schire, as may stand with your gracious pleasure. 1524Ibid. 150 The copy.., with my poore opinion upon the same, totted in the margyne. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1545/1 Such as were absent, had no allowance that daie: if they came late, their wages was totted at the expenditors good discretion. 1612Manch. Crt. Leet Rec. (1885) II. 270 Those ffreeholders..whose names are not totted in the Courtbooke.
▪ VII. tot, v.2 colloq.|tɒt|
[f. tot n.3]
a. trans. To add together and bring out the total of; to sum up.
1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 82 These, totted together, will make a pretty beginning of my little project. 1839T. Hook Gurney Married 403 Now, ma'am, if you will just tot up your account for schooling and that, I'll arrange the whole matter. 1876Farjeon Love's Vict. xiv, When he totted up the figures, he was rather serious. 1895Stuart & Park Variety Stage ii. 31 A waiter totting up the account as you passed through.
b. intr. to tot up: to amount, ‘come’ (to).
1882Besant All Sorts iv, I..wondered how much it would tot up to. Something, I thought, in four figures. 1892Idler July 719 Three stalls a week tot up frightfully in a year.
Hence ˈtotting vbl. n.
1823Monthly Mag. LV. 237 All the items were tenaciously preserved in the toting up. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. vi. 152 The very ‘totting up’ of his qualifications creates a ‘real presence’ of the man. 1865Standard 31 July, The totting [of the votes] was not concluded by Mr. Dames until half-past two. 1963Guardian 2 May 5/1 The ‘totting up’ procedure is a new principle, and Mr Marples explained that its sole purpose was to make anyone who had two endorsements in two years drive extra carefully. 1976Deeside Advertiser 9 Dec. 24/1 Hamilton had been disqualified by Chester City Magistrates in October for six months under the totting up procedure because of previous endorsements of his licence. 1978R. Mark Office of Constable xxii. 273 ‘Totting up’..is the arrangement under the 1972 Road Traffic Act authorizing the endorsement of a driving licence after conviction for any one of a number of offences. The endorsement lasts three years and two further endorsements during that period mean mandatory disqualification from driving for a minimum of six months.
▪ VIII. tot, v.3 Sc.|tɒt|
[Not recorded before 19th c.; ? playful shortening of totter or tottle. Connexion with tot n.4 1 ‘tiny child’ uncertain.]
intr. ‘To move with short steps as a child does’ (Jamieson 1825); to totter; to toddle; also playfully, to walk, go, move.
1824W. Jameson in Mem. & Lett. (1845) 46 My little Benoni is gathering strength and totting about. 1844A. McKay in Mod. Sc. Poets II. 377 When ye were wee bairnies, tot, totting about. c1850Whistle-binkie (1890) II. Songs Nursery 81 Awa they tot wi' ane anither.
▪ IX. tot, v.4|tɒt|
[Back-formation f. totting s.v. tot n.5]
intr. To pick anything saleable from a dustbin or tip; † to pick up bones.
1884J. Greenwood Little Ragamuffins xiv. 121 ‘P'r'aps he's going a-tottin'’ (picking up bones,) said Ripston. 1922Joyce Ulysses 422 On a step a gnome totting among a rubbishtip crouches to shoulder a sack of rags and bones. 1969Guardian 6 Feb. 5 The right to tot or sell salvage is the cause of a 10-day-old strike of 267 dustmen. 1976M. Russell Double Deal iv. 32, I could earn as much, totting for the corporation.
▪ X. tot
in phr. tot and quot: see tot-quot. |
