Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to tootle
Participle: tootled
Gerund: tootling
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | tootle |
| you | tootle |
| he;she;it | tootles |
| we | tootle |
| you | tootle |
| they | tootle |
Perfect
| I | have tootled |
| you | have tootled |
| he;she;it | has tootled |
| we | have tootled |
| you | have tootled |
| they | have tootled |
Past
| I | tootled |
| you | tootled |
| he;she;it | tootled |
| we | tootled |
| you | tootled |
| they | tootled |
Pluperfect
| I | had tootled |
| you | had tootled |
| he;she;it | had tootled |
| we | had tootled |
| you | had tootled |
| they | had tootled |
Future
| I | will tootle |
| you | will tootle |
| he;she;it | will tootle |
| we | will tootle |
| you | will tootle |
| they | will tootle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have tootled |
| you | will have tootled |
| he;she;it | will have tootled |
| we | will have tootled |
| you | will have tootled |
| they | will have tootled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | tootle |
| you | tootle |
| he;she;it | tootle |
| we | tootle |
| you | tootle |
| they | tootle |
Perfect
| I | have tootled |
| you | have tootled |
| he;she;it | have tootled |
| we | have tootled |
| you | have tootled |
| they | have tootled |
Imperfect
| I | tootled |
| you | tootled |
| he;she;it | tootled |
| we | tootled |
| you | tootled |
| they | tootled |
Pluperfect
| I | had tootled |
| you | had tootled |
| he;she;it | had tootled |
| we | had tootled |
| you | had tootled |
| they | had tootled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would tootle |
| you | would tootle |
| he;she;it | would tootle |
| we | would tootle |
| you | would tootle |
| they | would tootle |
Perfect
| I | would have tootled |
| you | would have tootled |
| he;she;it | would have tootled |
| we | would have tootled |
| you | would have tootled |
| they | would have tootled |
Imperative
| you | tootle |
| we | Let's tootle |
| you | tootle |
Verbs conjugated like 'tootle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'tootle'
footle,
pootle,
rootle,
tottle,
bootleg,
bottle,
coole,
doodle,
foozle,
google,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From toot + -le, frequentative.
Sample Sentences
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Now the scythe the morn salutes,
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In the meadow tinkling soon;
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While on mellow-tootling flutes
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Sweetly breathes the shepherd’s tune. [1820, John Clare, “Summer Morning”, in Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, London: Taylor and Hessey, page 145:]
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We know the old lady is upstairs and that she is quite alone in the house and therefore it would be perfectly useless for her to tootle on her bedroom bell. [1928, Fred M. White, chapter 27, in The Grey Woman:]
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Their booth did not have so many customers as did the other booths where the tootling laugh of Maybelle Merriwether sounded and Fanny Elsing’s giggles and the Whiting girls’ repartee made merriment. [1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter IX, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:]
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During the night, some of the locomotives began to tootle to one another, and then to move. [1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., chapter 3, in Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC:]
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A young, fresh-faced man, sitting by the driver, tootled a tandem horn. [1917, Horace Annesley Vachell, chapter 11, in Fishpingle: A Romance of the Countryside, New York: George H. Doran, page 204:]
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[…] Cecil can tootle a pretty fair sax, at that, if the play happens to come up. [1933, Damon Runyon, “Broadway Complex”, in Runyon from First to Last:]
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I suppose we’d better tootle back to the ballroom. [1933, Dorothy L. Sayers, “The Queen’s Square”, in A Treasury of Sayers Stories, London: Gollancz, published 1958, page 48:]
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‘When my old bike comes I shall tootle up and down the drive! Some swank!’ [1949, Elsie J. Oxenham, chapter 8, in The Abbey Girls Go Back to School, London: Collins:]
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I was about to go, I thought I’d tootle down to the Coleherne perhaps, then I wouldn’t be too far away if the bleep went. [1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 10, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 221:]
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[…] he would just see if his shover had enough in the tank to tootle them down to Warborough […] [1911, Agnes and Egerton Castle, chapter 1, in The Composer, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, page 4:]
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Say I pick you up and tootle you over with your hens. [1953, Angela Thirkell, chapter 3, in Jutland Cottage:]