toodle-oo
[ tood-l-oo ]
/ ˌtud lˈu /
interjection Informal.
goodbye; so long.
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Origin of toodle-oo
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toodle-oo
toodle-pip
/ (ˌtuːdəˈluː) /
sentence substitute
British informal, rare goodbye
Word Origin for toodle-oo
C20: perhaps imitative of the horn of a car
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toodle-oo
colloquial "good-bye" word, 1907, of unknown origin; variant tooraloo is recorded from c.1921.
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