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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. interj. Used to express annoyance, impatience, or mild reproof: "Tut, tut, child! ... Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it” ( Lewis Carroll).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To project.
  2. n. A hassock; a footstool.
  3. n. A piece of work; a job.
  4. To do work by the tut or tote; work by the piece.
  5. An exclamation used to check or rebuke, or to express impatience or contempt. It is synonymous with tush.
  6. To express impatience, contempt, or the like by the interjection tut.

Wiktionary

  1. interj. See tut tut
  2. v. To make a tut tut sound of disapproval.
  3. n. Internet, slang A tutorial.
  4. n. An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it.
  5. n. UK, obsolete, dialect A hassock.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. interj. Be still; hush; -- an exclamation used for checking or rebuking.
  2. n. An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it.
  3. n. Obs. or Prov. Eng. A hassock.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval

Etymologies

  1. Compare Swedish tut ("a point, pipe, tube"), Danish tut ("a cornet"). (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “We thought their language more harsh than that of the islanders in the South Sea, and they were continually repeating the word _chercau_, which we imagined to be a term expressing admiration, by the manner in which it was uttered: They also cried out, when they saw any thing new, _Cher, tut, tut, tut, tut_! which probably had a similar signification.”

    A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13

  • “America's Best Christian, Mrs. Betty Bowers, calls out Mormons and schools all Americans on the unconstitutional craze of doling out civil rights by popular vote: Hark! From sea to rising sea, crafty Christians are busy putting the "tut" -- and "con" -- back in”

    WN.com - Business News

  • “Mormons and schools all Americans on the unconstitutional craze of doling out civil rights by popular vote: Hark! From sea to rising sea, crafty Christians are busy putting the "tut" -- and "con" -- back in "Constitution"!”

    WN.com - Business News

  • ““Pok,” she then complained and duly launched a glottal raft of “arcs...” defined as tut, tut, tuts!”

    Puck, You, And Your Vocabulary

  • “I know a lot of time and effort goes into producing any tut, which is why I feel bad for mentioning anything negative.”

    Pinotblogger: the Capozzi Winery blog

  • “Automatically Georgina responded to that "tut" as if it were the old challenge of the powder horn.”

    Georgina of the Rainbows

  • “This enquiry will point a few fingers and 'tut' a little, but the major players will walk free and get on with their lives without a second thought for the sons, brothers, fathers and friends they murdered.”

    Army Rumour Service

  • “I'd mutter a loud "tut" as I passed; his dog would never darken our shingle from May to September again.”

    The Guardian World News

  • “Übersetzung: Es tut mir leid, dass du nicht an der Verlosung teilnehmen kannst, aber vielleicht finden wir ja einen anderen Weg, wie du ein Buch bekommen kannst.”

    Guest Author: Michelle Raven

  • “Feel free to tut-tut us, but don't mind if nobody takes it too seriously.”

    Only One Dealmaker « PubliCola

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. hush
  1. hassock
  1. nonsense

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. emit
  1. let out
  1. let loose
  1. utter

same context (20)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. tush
  2. parcouru
  3. wizardwood
  4. dearie
  1. Cher
  2. pshaw
  3. komme
  4. blurt
  1. macht
  2. gott
  3. l'espace
  4. 'twill
  1. hardass
  2. j'aurois
  3. sagt
  4. euch
  1. devient
  2. forefinger
  3. s'pose
  4. scart

rhymes (26)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Hutt
  2. Knut
  3. abut
  4. but
  5. butt
  1. cut
  2. glut
  3. gut
  4. haute
  5. hut
  1. jut
  2. kut
  3. mutt
  4. nut
  5. phut
  1. putt
  2. rebut
  3. rut
  4. shut
  5. shutt
  1. slut
  2. smut
  3. somewhat
  4. strut
  5. uncut
  1. what

reverse dictionary (7)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. tsk
  1. tut
  1. tut-tut
  1. tribute-work
  1. tut-worker
  1. tut-workman
  1. hoot

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  1. palindrome
  1. enantiomorph

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Words tagged ‘tut’

  1. tutivillus

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  • kawy "General term applied to any fancied supernatural being, of which there were an abundance in the British Isles. ... The Latin-esque tutivillus, from which tut can be traced, was also used by writers to bring forth images of a demon." -Forgotten English Jan 30, 2012

  • bilby I'm sure Batman and Robin referred to their baddie as King Tut rhyming with wing nut. Mar 22, 2009

  • frindley Today I went past a small ethnic restaurant called "King Tut's Hut". I would always pronounced this "Toot", like the beginning of Tutankhamen. But I wondered whether, in combination with "Hut", the expectation was that we'd pronounce the name to rhyme with the following word. Then, to complicate matters, there was a slogan painted on the window: "Toot and come in." Hmm. Mar 22, 2009

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