tot


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tot1
noun
  • 1 a very young child.
  • 2 chiefly Brit. a small drink of spirits.
– origin C18 (orig. dial.): of unknown origin.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tot2
verb (tots, totting, totted) (tot something up) chiefly Brit.
  • 1 add up numbers or amounts.
  • 2 accumulate something over time.
– origin C18: from archaic tot ‘set of figures to be added up’, abbrev. of total or of L. totum ‘the whole’.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tot3
verb (tots, totting, totted) (usu. as noun totting) Brit. informal salvage saleable items from dustbins or rubbish heaps.
– derivatives
totter noun.
– origin C19: from sl. tot ‘bone’, of unknown origin.
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