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Tooted vs Toted - What's the difference?

tooted | toted |

As verbs the difference between tooted and toted

is that tooted is past tense of toot while toted is past tense of tote.

tooted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (toot)

  • toot

    English

    Alternative forms

    * tout (in some verb senses only)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The noise of a horn or whistle.
  • He gave a little toot of the horn, to get their attention.
  • (by extension, informal) A fart; flatus.
  • (uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
  • (informal) A spree of drunkness.
  • Derived terms

    * on a toot

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To stand out, or be prominent.
  • (Howell)
  • To peep; to look narrowly.
  • (Latimer)
  • * Spenser
  • for birds in bushes tooting
  • To see; to spy.
  • To flatulate.
  • To make the sound of a horn or whistle.
  • * Thackeray
  • Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches.
  • To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound.
  • To go on a drinking binge.
  • Derived terms

    * darn tootin' * toot one's own horn

    toted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (tote)

  • tote

    English

    (wikipedia tote)

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bag, specifically a tote bag.
  • A heavy burden.
  • Verb

    (tot)
  • To carry or bear.
  • *, chapter=8
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.}}

    Etymology 2

    Shortening of (total), with e to distinguish from (tot) in writing

    Alternative forms

    * tot

    Verb

    (tot)
  • To add up; to calculate a total.
  • Etymology 3

    Shortening of (totalizator)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator
  • *1892 , Banjo Paterson,
  • *:He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee,
  • *:He laid the odds and kept a "tote ", whatever that may be,