tootle
Americanverb (used without object)
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to toot gently or repeatedly on a flute or the like.
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to move or proceed in a leisurely way.
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Most of the time, you will just tootle around town with it, doing really simple things.
From The Verge ● Dec. 19, 2018
Seinfeld asks comedian Brian Regan, one of his guests, as the two tootle around Los Angeles in a sporty 2006 Cadillac XLR and eventually stop for the requisite cup of coffee.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2018
As a native Chicagoan who has watched the Rams tootle around UC Irvine in their golf carts, I have to wonder what Dick Butkus would say if he saw them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2017
"We're happy to tootle along in a two-litre diesel in a Formula 1 race."
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2014
“Best garden pond in the village it'll be, Mr. Broadwas said, once my shrubbery's got a grip. Have a pleasant tootle round Tewkesbury, did we?”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
I didn’t play on the A side, but I played bass on the B side while my uncle tootled along on harp.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2015
Not so long ago, Americans who tootled around foreign countries in athletic attire earned a tourist badge of dishonor.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2015
With the naïve joy of all these ghosts, they tootled their glittery instruments at us.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2015
After dinner on a warmish weeknight—57 degrees in Ann Arbor—a junior picked up his trumpet and tootled a bit of Glenn Miller from his window, just to relax.
From Slate ● May 9, 2013
A man sat on the steps of the trading post and tootled a lively tune on a pakila, or panpipes.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Upstairs, Zella Powers, 85, worked on one of the library’s public computers, just reading the news, tootling around, one of a few dozen people a day who come to use the library’s internet.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2023
Angela Lansbury is a tweedy country eccentric in wartime England, tootling around on a bronchitic sidecar motorbike and receiving mysterious parcels from a professor in London.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
And what a renewal it was: roaring whales, bellowing elephants, tootling children and moaning freight trains.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 24, 2022
The music is slightly twisted indie rock, riffing with a guitar answered by a tootling keyboard but in 9/4 rather than the usual 4/4; like this election campaign, it keeps knocking itself askew.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2016
The music was tootling, the horses were going round and round, the lights were blazing—and no one was there!
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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