totty

plural totties

1. IrelandUKslanguncountablesexually attractive women considered collectively; usually connoting a connection with the upper class.
2. IrelandUKcountableslanguncountablean individual sexually attractive woman

   The mother screamed that Ali was a posh totty who held her nose up at ordinary folk with babies.

   2005, Georgina Hunter-Jones, Peckham Diamonds, Fly Fizzi Publishing, →ISBN, page 19

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   Some posh totty, who was more than a little bit of a babe, just walks up and makes Eddie pull her, against his will almost.

   2006, Richard Taylor, Eddie Shore 4 Jo, Lulu Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 29

   The doctor attended a fancy dress ball dressed as Star Trek's Dr Spock but suddenly the costume split open and his phaser found its way into some totty.

   2006, Tonto Greenberg, J Bannister, The Blue Book : V. 1, Banland Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 32

comparative more totty · superlative most totty

1. UKdialectalobsoleteunsteady; dizzy, tottery, or rickety

   I tell thee, fellow, I was somewhat totty when I received the good knight's blow, or I had kept my ground under it.

   1820, Walter Scott, chapter 32, in Ivanhoe

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   Then came October full of merry glee: / For yet his noule [head] was totty of the must, / Which he was treading in the wine-fats see, […]

   c. 1600, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book VII (Two Cantos of Mutabilitie), Canto VII

   I ate, drank, and was invigorated; when, to add to my good luck, the Sacristan, too totty to discharge his duty of turnkey fitly, locked the door beside the staple, so that it fell ajar.

   1820, Walter Scott, chapter 42, in Ivanhoe

alternative toaty · alternative totey · alternative totie

1. ScotlandTiny, wee.

   She would meet me with a summerbag: shoes and the little black number, though it had a totey hole at the shoulder […].

   1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 6

plural totties

1. alternativeAlternative form of toty (“low-caste laborer”).

plural Totties

1. archaicoffensiveHottentot

   Between the Totty and the Kaffir a deadly hatred exists, the former seeming to have a natural love for hunting the latter.

   1879, Alfred Wilks Drayson, Among the Zulus: The Adventures of Hans Sterk, South African Hunter and Pioneer, Griffith and Farran, page 338

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   Only the elite of the party are here assembled; for it would be little short of sacrelige for a Totty or a Caffre to presume to enter these sacred precincts, or to join in the conversation of the master

   1859, William and Robert Chambers, CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL OF POPULAR LITERATURE SCIENCE AND ARTS, London: W. & R. Chambers

1. alternativeAlternative form of Tottie (“female name, short for Charlotte”).