tot

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Feeding the baby is much like feeding a real tot, which is to say food gets everywhere.

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  1. noun A small child.
  2. noun A small amount, as of liquor.
  3. transitive verb To total: totted up the bill.

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  • Certain obscene rites of the voodoo fiends usually involved the blood from a human sacrifice--a child The father thought his tot was being seized for a hideous voodoo ceremony Johnny's keen brain raced. —  003 - Quest of the Spider
  • Don't worry little tot, the holidays are almost over. —  ParentDish
  • This has been true ever since I was a tot, although in the beginning I was unsophisticated. —  Chabad.org Weekly Magazine [ Korach 5769 - June 26, 2009 ]
  • He hopes to spur a fresh wave of interest in the hunt for the tot, who would be six next month. —  British Blogs
  • Feeding the baby is much like feeding a real tot, which is to say food gets everywhere. —  I4U News
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. from Icelandic tottr =Danish tot, a nickname of a dwarf. Cf. tit.
  2. from Latin tot, so much, so many; by some explained as an abbreviation of Latin totus, or English total, all. Cf. tot, v., tote, v.
  3. Middle English totten; from tot, n. Cf. tote.
 

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