toot v.2
to break wind; thus tooting adj.
in Limerick (1953) 345: Her sphincter was weak, / Her wind she couldn’t keep — / This tootin’ old spinster from Bruton. | ||
(con. 1940s) Wax Boom 125: Beans, beans, the music fruit, the more you eat the more you toot. | ||
Cat’s Eye (1989) 125: Pork and beans the musical fruit, the more you eat, the more you toot. | ||
Sl. U. |
SE in slang uses
In derivatives
(US black) a car.
Black Jargon in White America 84: tootmobile n. a car; automobile. |
In phrases
(US tramp) to ring a doorbell.
Tramping with Tramps 384: I goes over ’n’ toots the ringer [bell]. | ||
AS I:12 653: Toot-the-ringer — ring the door bell. | ‘Hobo Lingo’ in||
Milk and Honey Route 216: Toot the ringer – To ring backdoor bells. | ||
Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 189: Toot the Ding Dong.– To ring the (door) bell. | ||
Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 241: toot the ding-dong To beg from house to house. |