tootling

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of tootle

plural tootlings

1. The sound of a tootle.

   […] raving through the mad scene in Lucia amid childish orchestral tootlings […]

   1894, George Bernard Shaw, “Puccini: Manon Lescaut”, in Louis Crompton, editor, The Great Composers: Reviews and Bombardments by Bernard Shaw, Berkeley: University of California Press, published 1978, page 307

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   Then with melodious tootlings and amidst guttural plaudits, a big white automobile carrying a glitter of uniforms had gone by, driven at a headlong pace.

   1918, H. G. Wells, chapter 12, in Joan and Peter, London: Cassell, page 491