tootsie

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A line from the last post was a valentine to Robin, who knows much more about this stuff than I do, and who may not have had the patience to wade through the whole tedious thing to get to the tootsie-roll center of the tootsie-pop:

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  • Andi #37: I know, it's only a cold, but you must remember the panic when your wee tootsie wasn't well. —  BBC Blog Network
  • Even the cutsie-tootsie lawyer and talking head, Megan Kelly on Bill O'Reilly's show labled the homeowner a "racist" for calling one of the aboriginal mexicans an ethnic slur while holding them at gunpoint.
  • Like the number of licks to the center of a tootsie pop ..... the world may never know.
  • Correct it is the whole area and installing cutsie tootsie goodies in that park is not going to help take ... —  Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles
  • Well we haven't had any fighting in school yet, my middle child decided once she would steal a tootsie roll from someone else's cubby then lie about it, that wasn't so bad, she gave it back, made an apology letter and it all worked out. —  i, wright
 

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  1. Origin unknown. Sense 3, alteration of footsie, diminutive of foot.
 

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