Etymology

toodle-oo

Today it means: Goodbye, farewell, see you soon. Full definition →

French à tout à l'heure
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The story

  1. French · derived fromà tout à l'heure“see you later”
  2. English todaytoodle-oo

Unknown. Possibly from French à tout à l'heure (“see you later”, literally “until shortly”) or from toot.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.