tot1
n.
- a very young child.
- chiefly Brit. a small drink of spirits.
Etymology
C18 (orig. dial.): of unknown origin.
tot2
v.
(tots, totting, totted)
(
tot something up)
chiefly Brit. - add up numbers or amounts.
- accumulate something over time.
Etymology
C18: from archaic tot ‘set of figures to be added up’, abbrev. of total or of L. totum ‘the whole’.
tot3
v.
(tots, totting, totted)
[
usu. as noun totting]
Brit. informal salvage saleable items from dustbins or rubbish heaps.
Derivative
Etymology
C19: from sl. tot ‘bone’, of unknown origin.
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