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tootsie noun- a woman, a girlfriend; often used as a form of address, either humorous or affectionate US, 1895
- Some other tootsies tried their hand at making a strange face but were dragged off by their boy friends who chased them into the bar. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 122, 1947
- Let’s face it, whore or no whore, this is a clear-cut tootsie, right? — Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, p. 226, 1969
- Where the hell does that little Radcliffe tootsie come off rating Scott Fitzgerald and Gustav Mahler and then Heinrich Böll? — Manhattan, 1979
- a child’s foot; a woman’s foot US
A baby-talk coinage; playful or affectionate usage. - Howard got down on his knees and licked the Rock Chick’s tootsies. — Stewart Home, Sex Kick [britpulp], p. 212, 1999
- a capsule of secobarbital sodium and amobarbital sodium (trade name Tuinal), a combination of central nervous system depressants US
Also variant “tootie”. - — Donald Wesson and David Smith, Barbiturates, p. 122, 1977
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 283, 2003
- a toe UK, 1854
A baby-talk coinage; playful or affectionate usage. - They were the cutest, daintiest tootsies you’ve ever seen. — Frederick Kohner, The Affairs of Gidget, p. 45, 1963
- Each of your tootsies is packed with about 20,000 sweat glands! — Joy Masoff, Oh, Yuck, p. 63, 2000
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