tootsy

or toot·sie

[ toot-see ]

See synonyms for: tootsies on Thesaurus.com

noun,plural toot·sies.Slang.

a foot.

Origin of tootsy

First recorded in 1850–55; expressive variant of footsie

Words Nearby tootsy

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

How to use tootsy in a sentence

Then she replied, calling him sugar plum and tootsy wootsy and tiddley-winks.
Edgar Saltus: The Man | Marie Saltus
tootsy is on a rocking-horse at L. front, with Father and Mother helping her rock it.
The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays | Walter Ben Hare
If the rocking-horses are not easy to get, Dumpling and tootsy may be astride of sticks with horses' heads.
The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays | Walter Ben Hare
And since she's been left alone he'd been callin' reg'lar once a week, urging her to be his tootsy-wootsy No. 3.
Torchy and Vee | Sewell Ford
Well, little tootsy, how do you like being a great, big tootsy?
The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays | Walter Ben Hare

British Dictionary definitions for tootsy

tootsy

tootsie

/ (ˈtʊtsɪ) /

nounplural -sies

a child's word for toe

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Browse