Toted vs Totted - What's the difference?
toted | totted |
(tote)
To carry or bear.
*, chapter=8
, title= To add up; to calculate a total.
(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,
(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 verbs the difference between toted and totted
is that toted is past tense of tote while totted is past tense of tot.toted
English
Verb
(head)tote
English
(wikipedia tote)Etymology 1
Verb
(tot)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 writingAlternative forms
* totVerb
(tot)Etymology 3
Shortening of (totalizator)Noun
(en noun)totted
English
Verb
(head)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)