toit

American  

[toit] / tɔɪt /

verb (used without object)

toited, toiting

1. British. (in some regional dialects) to walk unsteadily or with small steps, as in the manner of an elderly person.

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toit

And if the objection is fatal to the conjecture, I would then propose "Sous toit unissons."

From Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850 by Various

Then I touched upon beer, the British bruiser, “gentility-nonsense,” the “trumpery great”; then upon etymology, traced hoity-toityism to toit, a roof,—but only to have my shallow philology dismissed with a withering smile. 

From Old Familiar Faces by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

Awve mi hobbies to keep me i' toit,    Awve noa whistle nor bell to obey, Awve mi wark when aw like to goa to it,    An mi time's all mi own, neet an day.

From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by Hartley, John

Indeed, all the words above-cited are more like each other than Fr. toit and E. deck, both from one root, or the Neapol. sciù and the Lat. flos, from which it is corrupted.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various

Aw've mi hobbies to keep mi i' toit, Aw've noa whistle nor bell to obey, Aw've mi wark when aw like to goa to it, An mi time's all mi own, neet an day.

From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by Hartley, John