Tot

/tɒt/ · noun

Meaning

A small child..

Definitions by Sense

1. A small child.
2. A small amount of liquor, (particularly) a small measure of rum.
3. Ellipsis of tater tot.
4. (Barbados) A small cup, usually made of tin.
5. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A foolish fellow.
6. To sum or total.
7. (UK, historical) To mark (a debt) with the word tot (Latin for "so much"), indicating that it was good or collectible for the amount specified.
8. A total, an addition of a long column of figures.

Example Sentences

He learned to run when he was just a tot.

When I was but a tiny tot, I knocked the neighbors cold / For I became to walk when I was scarcely one year old

Death conditioning begins at eighteen months. Every tot spends two mornings a week in a Hospital for the Dying. All the best toys are kept there, and they get chocolate cream on death days.

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.

Whoe answeared like a toute, or a maddman, as he was, that he was for the Kinge.

There are, of course, many ways to proceed from here, the most likely being that you, as an experienced tradesman, would simply know what these amounts come to (in terms of groups of ten) and can tot them up in your head.

a totted debt

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Word Forms

• tots
• totting
• totted

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