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He has often mentioned "Toot" - his version of the Hawaiian word "tutu," or grandparent - as an example of a strong woman succeeding through intelligence and determination.
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He has often mentioned "Toot" - his version of the Hawaiian word "tutu," or grandparent - as an example of a strong woman succeeding through intelligence and determination.
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He has often mentioned "Toot" - his version of the Hawaiian word "tutu," or grandparent - as an example of a strong woman succeeding through intelligence and determination.
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Obama has often mentioned "Toot" - his version of the Hawaiian word "tutu," or grandparent
CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News Christopher Wills The Associated Press 2008
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He has often mentioned "Toot" - his version of the Hawaiian word "tutu," or grandparent - as an example of a strong woman succeeding through intelligence and determination.
News for WSLS 10 2008
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Obama's nickname for his grandmother was "Toot," a version of the Hawaiian word for grandmother, tutu.
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Michelle Obama's voice choked with emotion during a campaign appearance in Colorado as she asked people to remember the woman her husband called "Toot," a version of the Hawaiian word for grandmother, tutu.
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The timing is something Mr. Obama could not have foreseen when writing in his memoir about the grandmother he calls Toot, a tough-as-nails woman who loved playing bridge, reading Agatha Christie mysteries and coming home from work to slip into a muumuu and have a smoke.
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I had gone into a dozen lowlife Negro bars during the night, had been propositioned, threatened, and even ignored, but no one knew a Haitian by the name of Toot.
Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988
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I had gone into a dozen lowlife Negro bars during the night, had been propositioned, threatened, and even ignored, but no one knew a Haitian by the name of Toot.
Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988
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Toot
Pronunciation: \?tüt\
Function: verb
Etymology: probably imitative
Date: circa 1510
intransitive verb
1 a: to sound a short blast b: to sound a note or call suggesting the short blast of a wind instrument
2: to blow or sound an instrument (as a horn) especially so as to produce short blasts
transitive verb
1: to cause to sound
2slang : to take in (as cocaine) by inhalation : snort
— toot·er noun
July 2, 2009