Tote vs Tute - What's the difference?

tote | tute |

As nouns the difference between tote and tute

is that tote is or tote can be cadaver; corpse (female dead person) while tute is (slang).

tote

English

(wikipedia tote)

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)

A bag, specifically a tote bag.

A heavy burden.

Verb

(tot)

To carry or bear.

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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,

tute

English

Alternative forms

* 'tute (institute)

Noun

(en noun)

(slang)

* 1991 Hazel Holt, A lot to ask: a life of Barbara Pym, Dutton, p29

Tute [tutorial] in the morning. Morrison couldn't think of much to say to us.'

* 2002 Michael Singh, Worlds of learning: globalisation and multicultural education, Common Ground, p35

The highlight of my day was at the end of the tute when the two Asian students came up to me and thanked me for letting them read.

* 2009 Janet Giltrow & Dieter Stein, Genres in the Internet: issues in the theory of genre, John Benjamins Publishing Company, p127

Many online genres - like the homless blog, the electronic petition, the review, and the "tute " [...] are often public

(slang)

How did you know I went to the tute ?

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