tutu

Borrowed from French tutu, from cucu (“bum, bottom”), playful reduplication of cul (“arse”).

A tutu

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuːtuː/

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• Rhymes: -uːtuː

tutu (plural tutus)

1. A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.

   The ballet dancer representing the swan wore a white tutu.

Borrowed from Maori tutu.

• IPA^(key): /tutu/ (This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA or enPR then please add some!
  Particularly: “stress?”)

tutu (plural tutus)

1. (New Zealand) Any of the genus Coriaria of shrubs and trees found in New Zealand.

   Synonyms: toot plant, tupakihi

• tutin

From Maori tutū (“mischievous, disobedient”).

• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈtʊtʉː/

tutu (third-person singular simple present tutus, present participle tutuing, simple past and past participle tutued)

1. (New Zealand, childish) to fiddle or mess around with something.
   • 2016 July 14, “New Plymouth sign maker invests in enormous flatbed printer”, in Stuff‎:

     "There were seven dudes here for a week just showing me how to use it and I just wanted them to leave so I could start tutuing with it."

tutu

1. to shower

tutu

1. bird

From French tutu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtutu/, [ˈt̪ut̪u]
• Rhymes: -utu
• Syllabification^(key): tu‧tu

tutu

1. tutu (garment)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtutuˣ/, [ˈt̪ut̪u(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -utu
• Syllabification^(key): tu‧tu

tutu

1. inflection of tutua:
   1. indicative present connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative present/present connegative

• tuut

Alteration of cucu, which is itself a reduplicated form of cul (“butt, bum, arse”).

• IPA^(key): /ty.ty/

tutu m (plural tutus)

1. tutu

• “tutu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /túː.tù/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [túː.tɪ̀]

tūtù m (possessed form tūtùn)

1. (childish or humorous) poop

Cognate with Tagalog totoo

tutu

1. true; genuine

• Rhymes: -u

tutu m (plural tutus)

1. tutu (ballet skirt)
2. (slang) money
   • 1971, "Donald, Meu Sobrinho", O Pato Donald #1000 (English text: 1952, "The Hypno-Gun", Walt Disney's Comics #145)

     Tio Patinhas: Mas eu lhe emprestei um cruzado para comprar um livro! Lembra-se?
     Ademar: Sim, eu me lembro! Mas eu já li o livro! E não preciso mais pagar! […] Sim, você tem tutu de sobra! Não lhe fará falta êsse cruzeirinho.

     Uncle Scrooge: But I loaned you a dollar to buy a book! Don't you remember?
     Rockjaw: Sure I remember! But I've read the book! I don't need to pay you now! […] And, besides, you've got lots of money! You don't need the dollar!

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tutu

1. burn

From French tutu.

tutu n (plural tutuuri)

1. tutu

• xoto (Spruce's orthography)

tutu

1. water

• Matthias Urban, El vocabulario sechurano de Richard Spruce, in Lexis volume XXXIX (2) 2015, citing Baltasar Jaime Martínez Compañón

tutu c

1. tutu

• IPA^(key): [ˈtu.tu]

tutu

1. (transitive) to pound
2. (transitive) to mash
3. (transitive) to punch (with one's fist)

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

tutu

1. (anatomy) breast

tutu

1. (anatomy) breast

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tutu

1. (anatomy) pupil

From Proto-Mixtec *tútù, from a Mixe-Zoquean language, from Proto-Mixe-Zoque *toto.

tutu

1. paper
2. document
3. book

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tutu

1. (intransitive) whistle

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tutu

1. together

• stutu

• Beaty de Farris, Kathryn; et al. (2012) Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)‎ (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 81–82