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In some senses, tot is marked as obsolete, UK, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.
tot
/tɒt/
noun 11verb 2name 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
close, little, sticky, still, tiny
VERB + TOT
experiencing, reported
TOT + NOUN
baby, fingers, mornings, people, site
ADV.
ebulliently, only
Definitions
noun
1
A small child.
He learned to run when he was just a tot.
When I was but a tiny tot, I knocked the neighbors cold / For I became to walk when I was scarcely one year old
2
A small amount of liquor, (particularly) a small measure of rum.
Then I give them a tot of rum apiece, as they sit huddled in their blankets.
And tot of rum to send him warm to sleep.
3
Ellipsis of tater tot.
4
A small cup, usually made of tin.
5
A foolish fellow.
Whoe answeared like a toute, or a maddman, as he was, that he was for the Kinge.
verb
1
To sum or total.
There are, of course, many ways to proceed from here, the most likely being that you, as an experienced tradesman, would simply know what these amounts come to (in terms of groups of ten) and can tot them up in your head.
2
To mark (a debt) with the word tot (Latin for "so much"), indicating that it was good or collectible for the amount specified.
a totted debt
noun
1
A total, an addition of a long column of figures.
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Idioms & Phrases
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He learned to run when he was just a tot.
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When I was but a tiny tot, I knocked the neighbors cold / For I became to walk when I was scarcely one year old
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Death conditioning begins at eighteen months. Every tot spends two mornings a week in a Hospital for the Dying. All the best toys are kept there, and they get chocolate cream on death days.
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There are, of course, many ways to proceed from here, the most likely being that you, as an experienced tradesman, would simply know what these amounts come to (in terms of groups of ten) and can tot
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a totted debt
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When experiencing a TOT, people not only retrieve a blocked word's sound and meaning; they also know some of its grammatical properties.
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