Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also Lottie de Tottie) generic for chorus girls or other young actresses.

1873		Globe (London) 16 Apr. 6/2: How delightful it is to us poor loungers in the stalls [...] to see persons beyond the lights who can sit down as ladies sit and talk as ladies talk without shocking us by ogling and pouting for a bouquet as our swarm of Lotties and Totties do.
1874		Western Mail 2 Oct. 6/1: [T]he Lotties and Totties, the Blanches [...] and Violets who flash their charms before the foot-lights.
1879		Wagga Wagga Exp. (NSW) 2 Aug. 8/1: [T]he empty headed little snobs in the stalls, who come in late laden with bouqets for Lottie and Tottie, and measure their merits by the scantiness of their skirts.
1880		Era (London) 6 June 4/3: The golden youth of the Crutch and Toothpick says, ‘Let's have Lotty and Totty, [...] some Music Hall songs, two or three cellar-flap dances, and the little girl with the skipping-rope, that's the only Drama worth the decimal part of a dump’.
1885		Referee 15 Nov. in Ware (1909) 165/2: 171/2: If time and space permitted I should like to tell you all about the Lotties and the Totties and the other out-of-work pets who pervaded the stalls, and showed a liberal proportion of their backs – backs and bosoms, too – as bare as they were born.
1891		Belfast News-Letter 15 Sept. 5/1: [T]he Daisies and Maisies, the Hetties and Letties, the Lotties and Totties who appear upon the stage.
1892		Express & Teleg. (Adelaide) 15 July 2/6: In private life the Lotties and Totties are no doubt exceedingly prosaic creatures, preferring the food and drink of their native Strand to the woodcock and champagne of masherdom.
1895		Sporting Times (London) 16 Mar. 1/1: The cake has at been won by Miss Lottie de Tottie, who has recently been promoted to a brougham.
1901		Thanet Advertiser 28 Dec. 5/3: [T]he sisters Lottie and Tottie are responsible for the creation of great deal of fun.
1915		Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 10 Feb. 7/4: [H]e is simply longing to shake a leg out in the Coogee surf amongst the dear little Lotties and Totties.
a.1918		S. Mayo [perf. Marie Lloyd] If You Want to Get On in Review 🎵 Where are the ladies? where are the shadies? / The Lizas, the Lotties and Lous? / Where have they gone to? You know they want to / All go in Revues.
1939		Eve. News (Rockhampton, Qld) 2 Feb. 4/4: [T]he first thing I saw in the lounge was our friend Borian, half-seas over, with a bevy of Lotties and Totties hanging round him.

2. prostitutes as a group.

1891		Era (London) 18 Apr. 16/3: His song about ‘St. John’s Wood,’ the ‘Lotties’ and ‘Totties,’ and Pimlico, is, perhaps, not of the sweetest savour.
1895		Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Mar. 4/1: [S]he should not talk of the ‘Lotties and Totties of the Haymarket.’ Piccadilly is understood to be the spot where Sin flaunts herself canary-haired and lower eyelid-painted.