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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A short skirt, often consisting of many layers of gathered sheer fabric, worn by ballerinas.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.

Etymologies

  1. From French tutu, an alteration of cucu, which is itself a reduplicated form of cul ("butt, bum, arse"). (Wiktionary)
  2. French, perhaps alteration of cucu, baby-talk reduplication of cul, buttocks; see culotte. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • john "Beyond that, Mr. Obama has played golf, taken walks on the beach with his daughters, eaten dinner at a few Honolulu restaurants with his wife and friends, and visited almost daily with his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, whom Mr. Obama calls “tutu,�? a Hawaiian term."

    The New York Times, McCain Displays Credentials as Obama Relaxes, by Michael Falcone, August 14, 2008 Aug 15, 2008

  • reesetee Alphabetical? ;-) Apr 29, 2008

  • chained_bear I call WeirdNet bias. Why Desmond is listed before "a very short skirt" is beyond me*.

    *note: not really. Apr 29, 2008

  • adoarns well-known ballet skirt. Dec 10, 2006

  • oroboros along with the ballet costume, tutu is also the hawaiian word for grandmother Dec 5, 2006

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‘tutu’ has been looked up 2848 times, added to 16 lists, commented on 5 times, and has a Scrabble score of 4.