tot

[tot]

verb (used with or without object), tot·ted, tot·ting.

to add; total (often followed by up).

noun

a total.
the act of adding.
British Informal. a column of numbers to be added.

Origin of tot

1745–55; < Latin: so much, so many

Related formsun·tot·ted, adjective

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Related Words for totted

juvenile, bairn, sprout, infant, newborn, descendant, offspring, lamb, mite, adolescent, progeny, tyke, imp, youngster, innocent, squirt, issue, minor, teenager, teen

Examples from the Web for totted

Historical Examples of totted

"Kipper's" rig-out must have totted up to a tidy little sum.
The Observations of Henry
Jerome K. Jerome
These were totted up at the end of the week, and then and there settled.
The Strand Magazine, Volume VII, Issue 41, May, 1894
Various
When he totted it all up together he found that he was affluent.
The Divine Fire
May Sinclair
Comparisons of form are more accurate and reliable when the worst hole is eliminated, than when all eighteen are totted up.
The Happy Golfer
Henry Leach
Totted them up to reach the total he had affirmed—certainly eighteen, possibly twenty-one.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 19th 1893
Various

British Dictionary definitions for totted

tot

noun

a young child; toddler
mainly British a small amount of anything
a small measure of spirits

Word Origin for tot

C18: perhaps short for totterer; see totter

tot

verb tots, totting or totted

(usually foll by up) mainly British to total; add

Word Origin for tot

C17: shortened from total or from Latin totum all

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Word Origin and History for totted

tot

"little child," 1725, Scottish, of uncertain origin, perhaps a shortened form of totter, or related to Old Norse tottr, nickname of a dwarf (cf. Swedish tutte "little child," Danish tommel-tot "little child," in which the first element means "thumb").

tot

"to reckon up," 1760, from tot (n.), first recorded 1680s, short for total.