Meaning

4 senses

  1. (intransitive)To make a soft toot sound.

  2. (transitive)To play (a musical instrument) making such a sound.

    play (a musical instrument) casually

  3. (colloquial, intransitive)To go (somewhere); to amble aimlessly.

  4. (colloquial, transitive)To transport (someone somewhere).

Origin

From toot + -le, frequentative.

From toot + -le, frequentative.

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Forms

tootles, tootling, tootled, tootled
Base formtootle · to tootle
3rd person singulartootles
Present participletootling
Past simpletootled
Past participletootled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytootle
he, she, ittootles

Past simpleLesson

all personstootled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave tootled
he, she, ithas tootled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill tootle

Word family

1 related words
Derivedtootler

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
toothpasteB1toothpicktopA1
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