Cot vs Tot - What's the difference?
cot | tot |
A small child.
A measure of spirits, especially rum.
* 1897: Mary H. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa
* 1916: Siegfried Sassoon, The Working Party
(UK, dialect, dated) A foolish fellow.
To sum or total.
As nouns the difference between cot and tot
is that cot is adze while tot is thunder.tot
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- He learned to run when he was just a tot .
- Then I give them a tot of rum apiece, as they sit huddled in their blankets.
- And tot of rum to send him warm to sleep.
- (Halliwell)