tootsy

American  

[toot-see] / ˈtʊt si /

Or tootsie

noun

Slang.

tootsies plural

1. a foot.

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tootsy British  

/ ˈtʊtsɪ /

noun

1. a child's word for toe

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Etymology

Origin of tootsy

First recorded in 1850–55; expressive variant of footsie ( def. )

Example Sentences

Then she replied, calling him sugar plum and tootsy wootsy and tiddley-winks.

From Edgar Saltus: The Man by Saltus, Marie

No girl had ever called him her "snooky ookums," and he had never had the opportunity of calling any fair vision his "tootsy wootsy."

From Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope by Cumming, R. D. (Robert Dalziel)

Ah, say, reverse English on the tootsy business!" says I. "This ain't any heart-throb matinee.

From Torchy by Brehm, George