Totty
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
Totty (plural Totties)
- (archaic, offensive) Hottentot
- 1859, William and Robert Chambers, CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL OF POPULAR LITERATURE SCIENCE AND ARTS, London: W. & R. Chambers:
- Only the elite of the party are here assembled; for it would be little short of sacrelige for a Totty or a Caffre to presume to enter these sacred precincts, or to join in the conversation of the master
- 1879, Alfred Wilks Drayson, Among the Zulus: The Adventures of Hans Sterk, South African Hunter and Pioneer, Griffith and Farran, page 338:
- Between the Totty and the Kaffir a deadly hatred exists, the former seeming to have a natural love for hunting the latter.
Etymology 2[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Totty
- Alternative form of Tottie (“female name, short for Charlotte”)
Afrikaans[edit]
Etymology[edit]
A contraction of Hottentot.
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
Totty (plural [please provide])