tootle | Word of the Day

April 13, 2019 tootle [toot-l] verb 1. to move or proceed in a leisurely way. noun 1. the sound made by tooting on a flute or the like. word-trends Has The Word "Expert" Lost Its Meaning In 2019? word-trends Is "Crude" The Right Word To Use To Describe Someone's Language? WORD OF THE DAY tootle continued... QUOTES Dash responded with the message "Yay!" and a winsome shimmy, then tootled off at one and a half miles an hour—maybe in search of someone's job. -- Patricia Marx, "Learning to Love Robots," The New Yorker, November 26, 2018 ORIGIN Tootle, an English frequentative verb from the verb toot, means "to keep tooting." Frequentative in grammar and linguistics means "pertaining to a verb that expresses repetition of an action." In the Slavic languages, e.g., Polish and Russian, frequentative verbs are very common, very complex, and very vexing for the learner. Latin has cantāre "to keep singing," the source of chant, a frequentative of canere, the "plain" verb meaning "to sing"; and visitāre "to keep seeing, call upon, visit," a frequentative of vidēre "to see." Frequentative verbs are no longer productive in English, which uses only -er and -le as frequentative suffixes, as in patter from pat, putter from putt, crackle from crack, and tootle from toot. Tootle entered English in the 19th century. MORE FOR YOU 1 Can We Call Products "Meat" or "Milk" If They Don't Come From Animals? In our age of meatless chicken nuggets, tofu hot dogs, and faux burgers that "bleed," what constitutes meat today? 2 The Google Effect And More 'Rules' The Internet Created Who needs to stash away names and dates into our longterm memory when we have Google? And, guess what, that phenomenon has a name! 3 Dissent vs. Protest: Why Choosing The Right Word Matters It seems political conflict in the 2010s has put the words dissent and protest at the center of our vocabulary. But are we using them correctly? 4 The Double Meanings For These Innocent Animal Emoji Sometimes, a lobster isn't just a lobster ... 5 Does "Spark Joy" Mean The Same Thing In English And Japanese? In the context of the KonMari method, joy goes beyond just happiness. So what does it actually mean in Japanese, then? © 2019 Dictionary.com, LLC. ABOUT CONTACT You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: matzom229@gmail.com Subscriber since: September 06, 2017 Unsubscribe Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Manage your subscription Terms & Privacy