Tot
noun
A very young child, especially one that is learning to walk.
She is still a tot, learning to speak properly
Often appears as...
- toddler tot
- tiny tot
verb
To add up numbers or amounts.
He totted up the amount he would need to buy a new car
Often appears as...
- totted up the cost
- totted up the results
noun
A small amount of alcoholic drink.
He poured a tot of whiskey into his glass
Often appears as...
- tot of rum
- tot of whiskey
Usage tips
Informal
noun
A very young child, especially one that is learning to walk.
She is still a tot, learning to speak properly
Often appears as...
- toddler tot
- tiny tot
verb
To add up numbers or amounts.
He totted up the amount he would need to buy a new car
Often appears as...
- totted up the cost
- totted up the results
noun
A small amount of alcoholic drink.
He poured a tot of whiskey into his glass
Often appears as...
- tot of rum
- tot of whiskey
Usage tips
Informal
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Pro Tip 1/3Age Context
Often used for children under 3 who are just starting to walk or talk.
The playground is full of tots on a sunny day.
Pro Tip 2/3Affectionate Tone
Using 'tot' can sound endearing or affectionate when referring to toddlers.
Look at that little tot with her teddy bear!
Pro Tip 3/3Family Setting
Most appropriate in casual or family conversations rather than formal writing.
Our family will grow now that there's another tot on the way.
Pro Tip 1/3Age Context
Often used for children under 3 who are just starting to walk or talk.
The playground is full of tots on a sunny day.
Pro Tip 2/3Affectionate Tone
Using 'tot' can sound endearing or affectionate when referring to toddlers.
Look at that little tot with her teddy bear!
Pro Tip 3/3Family Setting
Most appropriate in casual or family conversations rather than formal writing.
Our family will grow now that there's another tot on the way.
Pro Tip 1/3Age Context
Often used for children under 3 who are just starting to walk or talk.
The playground is full of tots on a sunny day.
Pro Tip 2/3Affectionate Tone
Using 'tot' can sound endearing or affectionate when referring to toddlers.
Look at that little tot with her teddy bear!
Pro Tip 3/3Family Setting
Most appropriate in casual or family conversations rather than formal writing.
Our family will grow now that there's another tot on the way.
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Safari Live - Day 129 PIPE...
this other eleven what I'm so sorry you've got plenty room yeah yes no please don't be ugly to us because I don't actually have too many places to go this afternoon we're on the dam wall thank you you've got so much space it's okay oh yes and check cheeky tot over
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The brain in love PIPE...
but it's really deepened my understanding and compassion, really, for all human life. As a matter of fact, in New York, I often catch myself looking in baby carriages and feeling a little sorry for the tot. And in fact, sometimes I feel a little sorry
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 129 PIPE...
this other eleven what I'm so sorry you've got plenty room yeah yes no please don't be ugly to us because I don't actually have too many places to go this afternoon we're on the dam wall thank you you've got so much space it's okay oh yes and check cheeky tot over
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The brain in love PIPE...
but it's really deepened my understanding and compassion, really, for all human life. As a matter of fact, in New York, I often catch myself looking in baby carriages and feeling a little sorry for the tot. And in fact, sometimes I feel a little sorry
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Quote examples
William Hanna
American Artist
We moved amazingly fast because our product was acceptable to a broad market: tots, teenagers, adults. Even to some people who never before liked cartoons. When we started we knew Disney already had the kids. So we figured we should be broader.
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Tristram Stuart
English Author
The manufacture and running of all the world's computers, the toxicity of the hardware mountains that we currently dump on other countries; all this can be totted up on the environmental account of web-users and its authors.
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Jane Green
English Author
I now realise how liberating all-inclusive resorts are. No carrying huge handbags anywhere. No having to worry about purses being pinched. No totting up the price in your head and fretting that you've spent too much.
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Rick Astley
English Musician
When I was a tiny tot, we only had one record player in the house, so there was either Genesis on it or the Jungle Book or The Beatles as well, and various other things.
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Kate Garraway
English Journalist
I thought, 'I don't really drink that much.' But when you stop completely it is a shocker. You realise that a glass here, going to a function there, they all tot up.
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Jose Andres
Spanish Chef
As a chef and as a father, I am very upset by what's on the menu at most schools: chicken nuggets and tater tots and ketchup and pizza.
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Mariella Frostrup
British Journalist
It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.
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Emil Cioran
Romanian Philosopher
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
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Jackie Shroff
Indian Actor
When I go out, a lot of people and their tiny tots call me Tiger Shroff's daddy.
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Little Milton
American Musician
My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.
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William Hanna
American Artist
We moved amazingly fast because our product was acceptable to a broad market: tots, teenagers, adults. Even to some people who never before liked cartoons. When we started we knew Disney already had the kids. So we figured we should be broader.
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Tristram Stuart
English Author
The manufacture and running of all the world's computers, the toxicity of the hardware mountains that we currently dump on other countries; all this can be totted up on the environmental account of web-users and its authors.
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Jane Green
English Author
I now realise how liberating all-inclusive resorts are. No carrying huge handbags anywhere. No having to worry about purses being pinched. No totting up the price in your head and fretting that you've spent too much.
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Rick Astley
English Musician
When I was a tiny tot, we only had one record player in the house, so there was either Genesis on it or the Jungle Book or The Beatles as well, and various other things.
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Kate Garraway
English Journalist
I thought, 'I don't really drink that much.' But when you stop completely it is a shocker. You realise that a glass here, going to a function there, they all tot up.
Quote examples
Jose Andres
Spanish Chef
As a chef and as a father, I am very upset by what's on the menu at most schools: chicken nuggets and tater tots and ketchup and pizza.
Quote examples
Mariella Frostrup
British Journalist
It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.
Quote examples
Emil Cioran
Romanian Philosopher
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
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Jackie Shroff
Indian Actor
When I go out, a lot of people and their tiny tots call me Tiger Shroff's daddy.
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Little Milton
American Musician
My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.
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