teetotumn.¹

Brit.

/tiːˈtəʊtəm/, U.S.

/tiˈtoʊdəm/

Forms: 1700s T totum, 1700s–1800s te(-)totum, tee(-)totum, 1800s (erron.) te-totum, tee-to-tum; see also totum n.¹

Etymology: Originally T totum , formed by prefixing to Latin tōtum ‘all, the whole’, its initial T, which stood for it on one of the four sides of the toy (itself in earlier use called simply a totum n.¹, as in 17th cent. French totum, now toton).

a. A small four-sided disk or die having an initial letter inscribed on each of its sides, and a spindle passing down through it by which it could be twirled or spun with the fingers like a small top, the letter which lay uppermost, when it fell, deciding the fortune of the player; now, any light top (sometimes a circular disk pierced by a short peg), spun with the fingers, used as a toy.The letters were originally the initials of Latin words, viz. T totum, A aufer, D depone, N nihil. Subsequently they were the initials of English words, T being interpreted as take-all: see quot. 1801. On the French totum or toton, the letters are T, A, D, R, meaning, according to Littré, Totum, tout, Accipe, prends, Da, donne, Rien (nothing).

ΘΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > top > [noun]

top13..

spilquernc1375

prill1440

spilcockc1440

whirligigc1440

nun1585

nun-gig1615

Roaring Meg1632

totum1706

teetotum1720

spinner1799

spinning-top1821

jenny-spinner1824

diabolo1905

dreidel1916

1720 Hist. Life & Adventures D. Campbell (1841) 50 A very fine ivory T totum, as children call it.

1778 F. Burney Evelina III. xxi. 240 And turn round like a tetotum.

1800 Sporting Mag. 15 48 A man was lately convicted..for selling a teetotum.

1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. iv. 341 When I was a boy the te-totum had only four sides, each of them marked with a letter; a T for take all; an H for half, that is, of the stake; an N for nothing; and a P for put down, that is, a stake equal to that you put down at first.

1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris v. 23 Though, like a tee~totum, I'm all in a twirl, Yet even (as you wittily say) a tee~totum Between all its twirls gives a letter to note 'em.

1893 W. S. Gilbert Utopia (Limited) 11 She'll waltz away like a teetotum.

b. figurative (a) Scottish and Irish English. A very little person. (b) Something very unsteady.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person

dwarfeOE

congeonc1230

go-by-ground?a1300

smalla1300

shrimpc1386

griga1400

gruba1400

murche1440

nirvil1440

mitinga1450

witherling1528

wretchocka1529

elf1530

hop-o'-my-thumb1530

pygmy1533

little person1538

manikin1540

mankin1552

dandiprat1556

yrle1568

grundy1570

Jack Sprat1570

squall1570

manling1573

Tom Thumb1579

pinka1585

squib1586

screaling1594

giant-dwarf1598

twattle1598

agate1600

minimus1600

cock sparrow1602

dapperling1611

modicum1611

scrub1611

sesquipedalian1615

dwarflinga1618

wretchcock1641

homuncio1643

whip-handle1653

homuncule1656

whippersnapper1674

chitterling1675

sprite1684

carliea1689

urling1691

wirling1691

dwarf man1699

poppet1699

durgan1706

short-arse1706

tomtit1706

Lilliputian1726

wallydraigle1736

midge1757

minikin1761

squeeze-crab1785

minimum1796

niff-naff1808

titman1818

teetotum1822

squita1825

cradden1825

nyaff1825

weed1825

pinkeen1850

fingerling1864

Lilliput1867

thumbling1867

midget1869

inch1884

shorty1888

titch1888

skimpling1890

stub1890

scrap1898

pygmoid1922

lofty1933

peewee1935

smidgen1952

pint-size1954

pint-sized1973

munchkin1974

1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie III. xxvi. 221 I didna think Miss Mary would ever tak sic a tee totum.

1860 W. M. Thackeray Notes Week's Holiday in Roundabout Papers 223 Who knows how long that dear teetotum happiness can be made to spin without toppling over?

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 723 Comical little teetotum always stuck up in some pub corner and her or her son waiting.

2. A game of chance played with this device.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > other games of chance > [noun]

even or odd1538

love1585

Jack-in-the-box?1593

under-hat1629

pluck-penny1643

morra1659

catch-dolt1674

shuffle-cap1712

fair chance1723

E O1751

teetotum1753

rondo1821

cut-throat1823

hop-my-fool1824

odds and evens1841

spin-'em-round1851

halfpenny under the hat1853

racehorses1853

fan-tan1878

tan1883

pakapoo1886

legality1888

petits chevaux1891

pai gow1906

boule1911

put and take1921

1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom (1784) 65/1 Continue to divert ourselves at all fours, brag, cribbidge, tetotum, &c.

1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xiv O'Grady gruffly broke in with ‘You'd better ask him, does he love teetotum’.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, whirling like the top.

ΘΠ

the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective]

slidinga900

wankleeOE

windyc1000

unsteadfastc1200

fleeting?c1225

loose?c1225

brotelc1315

unstablec1340

varyingc1340

variantc1374

motleyc1380

ungroundedc1380

muablea1393

passiblea1393

remuablea1393

changeablea1398

movablea1398

variablec1397

slidderya1400

ticklec1400

variantc1412

flitting1413

mutable?a1425

movingc1425

flaskisable1430

flickering1430

transmutablec1430

vertible1447

brittlea1450

ficklea1450

permutablec1450

unfirmc1450

uncertain1477

turnable1483

unsteadfast1483

vagrantc1522

inconstant1526

alterable?1531

stirringc1540

slippery1548

various1552

slid?1553

mutala1561

rolling1561

weathery1563

unconstant1568

interchangeable1574

fluctuant1575

stayless1575

transitive1575

voluble1575

changeling1577

queasy1579

desultory1581

huff-puff1582

unstaid1586

vagrant1586

changeful1590

floating1594

Protean1594

unstayed1594

swimming1596

anchorless1597

mobilec1600

ticklish1601

catching1603

labile1603

unrooted1604

quicksilvered1605

versatile1605

insubstantial1607

uncertain1609

brandling1611

rootless1611

squeasy1611

wind-changinga1616

insolid1618

ambulatory1625

versatilous1629

plastic1633

desultorious1637

unbottomed1641

fluid1642

fluent1648

yea-and-nay1648

versipellous1650

flexile1651

uncentred1652

variating1653

chequered1656

slideable1662

transchangeative1662

weathercock-like1663

flicketing1674

fluxa1677

lapsable1678

wanton1681

veering1684

upon the weathercock1702

contingent1703

unsettled?1726

fermentable1731

afloat1757

brickle1768

wavy1795

vagarious1798

unsettled1803

fitful1810

metamorphosical1811

undulating1815

tittupya1817

titubant1817

mutative1818

papier mâché1818

teetotum1819

vacillating1822

capricious1823

sensitive1828

quicksilvery1829

unengrafted1829

fluxionala1834

proteiform1833

liquid1835

tottlish1835

kaleidoscopic1846

versative1846

kaleidoscopical1858

tottery1861

choppy1865

variative1874

variational1879

wimbly-wambly1881

fluctuable1882

shifty1882

giveable1884

shifty1884

tippy1886

mutatory1890

upsettable1890

rocky1897

undulatory1897

streaky1898

tottly1905

tipply1906

up and down1907

inertialess1927

sometimey1946

rise-and-fall1950

switchable1961

1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) II. 97 Mrs. S—m-r's tetotum-like turn, not without grace or activity, but with a sportive kind of oddity.

1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters x. 258 His own teetotum brain is upset.

Derivatives

teeˈtotum v. intransitive to spin like a teetotum, to gyrate.

ΘΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)] > spin

spin1667

pirouette1741

pirl1791

turbinate1797

snoove1808

twizzlea1825

teetotum1831

teetotumize1841

purl1857

1831 T. Moore Summer Fête 556 No blither nymph te~totumed round To Collinet's immortal strain.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 199 If that wretch, the current..did not grab hold of the nose of my canoe, and we teetotummed.

teeˈtotumize v. = teetotum vb.

ΘΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)] > spin

spin1667

pirouette1741

pirl1791

turbinate1797

snoove1808

twizzlea1825

teetotum1831

teetotumize1841

purl1857

1841 T. Noel Rymes & Roundelays 212 Brother bards..Ye, who..Set your brains tetotum-izing.

teeˈtotumism n. the condition of being ‘in a whirl’ like a teetotum.Apparently an isolated use.

1813 W. Bull in Mem. (1864) xvi. 350 The whirligigism of your situation,—I might have said the teetotumism, for I think your brain must very much resemble a teetotum.

teeˈtotumwise adv. in the manner of a teetotum.

ΘΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adverb] > in a spinning manner

teetotumwise1881

top-wise1900

spinningly1923

1881 Daily News 1 Feb. 5/4 The Mevliveeyeh, profanely called Dancing Dervishes, still revolve teetotum-wise.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	teetotum
释义	teetotumn.¹ Brit. /tiːˈtəʊtəm/, U.S. /tiˈtoʊdəm/ Forms: 1700s T totum, 1700s–1800s te(-)totum, tee(-)totum, 1800s (erron.) te-totum, tee-to-tum; see also totum n.¹ Etymology: Originally T totum , formed by prefixing to Latin tōtum ‘all, the whole’, its initial T, which stood for it on one of the four sides of the toy (itself in earlier use called simply a totum n.¹, as in 17th cent. French totum, now toton). 1. a. A small four-sided disk or die having an initial letter inscribed on each of its sides, and a spindle passing down through it by which it could be twirled or spun with the fingers like a small top, the letter which lay uppermost, when it fell, deciding the fortune of the player; now, any light top (sometimes a circular disk pierced by a short peg), spun with the fingers, used as a toy.The letters were originally the initials of Latin words, viz. T totum, A aufer, D depone, N nihil. Subsequently they were the initials of English words, T being interpreted as take-all: see quot. 1801. On the French totum or toton, the letters are T, A, D, R, meaning, according to Littré, Totum, tout, Accipe, prends, Da, donne, Rien (nothing). ΘΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > top > [noun] top13.. spilquernc1375 prill1440 spilcockc1440 whirligigc1440 nun1585 nun-gig1615 Roaring Meg1632 totum1706 teetotum1720 spinner1799 spinning-top1821 jenny-spinner1824 diabolo1905 dreidel1916 1720 Hist. Life & Adventures D. Campbell (1841) 50 A very fine ivory T totum, as children call it. 1778 F. Burney Evelina III. xxi. 240 And turn round like a tetotum. 1800 Sporting Mag. 15 48 A man was lately convicted..for selling a teetotum. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. iv. 341 When I was a boy the te-totum had only four sides, each of them marked with a letter; a T for take all; an H for half, that is, of the stake; an N for nothing; and a P for put down, that is, a stake equal to that you put down at first. 1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris v. 23 Though, like a tee~totum, I'm all in a twirl, Yet even (as you wittily say) a tee~totum Between all its twirls gives a letter to note 'em. 1893 W. S. Gilbert Utopia (Limited) 11 She'll waltz away like a teetotum. b. figurative (a) Scottish and Irish English. A very little person. (b) Something very unsteady. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person dwarfeOE congeonc1230 go-by-ground?a1300 smalla1300 shrimpc1386 griga1400 gruba1400 murche1440 nirvil1440 mitinga1450 witherling1528 wretchocka1529 elf1530 hop-o'-my-thumb1530 pygmy1533 little person1538 manikin1540 mankin1552 dandiprat1556 yrle1568 grundy1570 Jack Sprat1570 squall1570 manling1573 Tom Thumb1579 pinka1585 squib1586 screaling1594 giant-dwarf1598 twattle1598 agate1600 minimus1600 cock sparrow1602 dapperling1611 modicum1611 scrub1611 sesquipedalian1615 dwarflinga1618 wretchcock1641 homuncio1643 whip-handle1653 homuncule1656 whippersnapper1674 chitterling1675 sprite1684 carliea1689 urling1691 wirling1691 dwarf man1699 poppet1699 durgan1706 short-arse1706 tomtit1706 Lilliputian1726 wallydraigle1736 midge1757 minikin1761 squeeze-crab1785 minimum1796 niff-naff1808 titman1818 teetotum1822 squita1825 cradden1825 nyaff1825 weed1825 pinkeen1850 fingerling1864 Lilliput1867 thumbling1867 midget1869 inch1884 shorty1888 titch1888 skimpling1890 stub1890 scrap1898 pygmoid1922 lofty1933 peewee1935 smidgen1952 pint-size1954 pint-sized1973 munchkin1974 1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie III. xxvi. 221 I didna think Miss Mary would ever tak sic a tee totum. 1860 W. M. Thackeray Notes Week's Holiday in Roundabout Papers 223 Who knows how long that dear teetotum happiness can be made to spin without toppling over? 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 723 Comical little teetotum always stuck up in some pub corner and her or her son waiting. 2. A game of chance played with this device. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > other games of chance > [noun] even or odd1538 love1585 Jack-in-the-box?1593 under-hat1629 pluck-penny1643 morra1659 catch-dolt1674 shuffle-cap1712 fair chance1723 E O1751 teetotum1753 rondo1821 cut-throat1823 hop-my-fool1824 odds and evens1841 spin-'em-round1851 halfpenny under the hat1853 racehorses1853 fan-tan1878 tan1883 pakapoo1886 legality1888 petits chevaux1891 pai gow1906 boule1911 put and take1921 1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom (1784) 65/1 Continue to divert ourselves at all fours, brag, cribbidge, tetotum, &c. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xiv O'Grady gruffly broke in with ‘You'd better ask him, does he love teetotum’. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, whirling like the top. ΘΠ the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective] slidinga900 wankleeOE windyc1000 unsteadfastc1200 fleeting?c1225 loose?c1225 brotelc1315 unstablec1340 varyingc1340 variantc1374 motleyc1380 ungroundedc1380 muablea1393 passiblea1393 remuablea1393 changeablea1398 movablea1398 variablec1397 slidderya1400 ticklec1400 variantc1412 flitting1413 mutable?a1425 movingc1425 flaskisable1430 flickering1430 transmutablec1430 vertible1447 brittlea1450 ficklea1450 permutablec1450 unfirmc1450 uncertain1477 turnable1483 unsteadfast1483 vagrantc1522 inconstant1526 alterable?1531 stirringc1540 slippery1548 various1552 slid?1553 mutala1561 rolling1561 weathery1563 unconstant1568 interchangeable1574 fluctuant1575 stayless1575 transitive1575 voluble1575 changeling1577 queasy1579 desultory1581 huff-puff1582 unstaid1586 vagrant1586 changeful1590 floating1594 Protean1594 unstayed1594 swimming1596 anchorless1597 mobilec1600 ticklish1601 catching1603 labile1603 unrooted1604 quicksilvered1605 versatile1605 insubstantial1607 uncertain1609 brandling1611 rootless1611 squeasy1611 wind-changinga1616 insolid1618 ambulatory1625 versatilous1629 plastic1633 desultorious1637 unbottomed1641 fluid1642 fluent1648 yea-and-nay1648 versipellous1650 flexile1651 uncentred1652 variating1653 chequered1656 slideable1662 transchangeative1662 weathercock-like1663 flicketing1674 fluxa1677 lapsable1678 wanton1681 veering1684 upon the weathercock1702 contingent1703 unsettled?1726 fermentable1731 afloat1757 brickle1768 wavy1795 vagarious1798 unsettled1803 fitful1810 metamorphosical1811 undulating1815 tittupya1817 titubant1817 mutative1818 papier mâché1818 teetotum1819 vacillating1822 capricious1823 sensitive1828 quicksilvery1829 unengrafted1829 fluxionala1834 proteiform1833 liquid1835 tottlish1835 kaleidoscopic1846 versative1846 kaleidoscopical1858 tottery1861 choppy1865 variative1874 variational1879 wimbly-wambly1881 fluctuable1882 shifty1882 giveable1884 shifty1884 tippy1886 mutatory1890 upsettable1890 rocky1897 undulatory1897 streaky1898 tottly1905 tipply1906 up and down1907 inertialess1927 sometimey1946 rise-and-fall1950 switchable1961 1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) II. 97 Mrs. S—m-r's tetotum-like turn, not without grace or activity, but with a sportive kind of oddity. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters x. 258 His own teetotum brain is upset. Derivatives teeˈtotum v. intransitive to spin like a teetotum, to gyrate. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)] > spin spin1667 pirouette1741 pirl1791 turbinate1797 snoove1808 twizzlea1825 teetotum1831 teetotumize1841 purl1857 1831 T. Moore Summer Fête 556 No blither nymph te~totumed round To Collinet's immortal strain. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 199 If that wretch, the current..did not grab hold of the nose of my canoe, and we teetotummed. teeˈtotumize v. = teetotum vb. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)] > spin spin1667 pirouette1741 pirl1791 turbinate1797 snoove1808 twizzlea1825 teetotum1831 teetotumize1841 purl1857 1841 T. Noel Rymes & Roundelays 212 Brother bards..Ye, who..Set your brains tetotum-izing. teeˈtotumism n. the condition of being ‘in a whirl’ like a teetotum.Apparently an isolated use. Π 1813 W. Bull in Mem. (1864) xvi. 350 The whirligigism of your situation,—I might have said the teetotumism, for I think your brain must very much resemble a teetotum. teeˈtotumwise adv. in the manner of a teetotum. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adverb] > in a spinning manner teetotumwise1881 top-wise1900 spinningly1923 1881 Daily News 1 Feb. 5/4 The Mevliveeyeh, profanely called Dancing Dervishes, still revolve teetotum-wise. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). teetotumn.² Etymology: A whimsical formation < teetotal adj. and n., apparently after teetotum n.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: teeˈtotum. A teetotal or temperance restaurant. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant > other eating-houses ordinary1590 chop-house1699 porterhouse?1730 steak house1762 beef-house1807 rotisserie1825 fish-shop1826 supper tavern1841 supper house1855 supper room1858 grill-room1883 teetotum1891 grill1896 bar and grill1903 corner-house1912 bistro1922 roadhouse1922 hot doggery1923 rosticceria1930 dinette1940 British Restaurant1941 drive-through1949 drive-up1956 sobaya1958 carvery1962 ouzeri1964 crêperie1967 steak restaurant1970 sushiya1970 steak bar1971 buka1972 kopitiam1979 bukateria1980 churrascaria1981 parrilla1981 Indian1982 theme pub1983 parrillada1984 restobar1992 1891 Independent 10 Apr. 233/3 There is little to distinguish ‘the Teetotum’ from the ordinary Coffee Tavern or Temperance Club except the peculiarity of being ‘a tied house’. 1892 Daily News 24 June 2/8 His Royal Highness..expressed satisfaction..at the starting of ‘tee-to-tums’, or temperance restaurants. 1895 Westm. Gaz. 7 Jan. 7/1 A kind of cross between the Gothenburg system and the Tee-to-tum scheme. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.¹1720n.²1891
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teetotumn.1

Compounds

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teetotumn.2

teetotumn.¹

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