Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to walk, to travel; to wander casually or aimlessly; thus tootling n.

1846		D. Corcoran Pickings from N.O. Picayune 180: Mick [...] tottled [sic] on to where Bridget acted as principal cook.
1898		E. Pugh Tony Drum 6: He had tootled his way to London.
1903		Bulletin (Sydney) 2 July 15/2: Not generally known that wing-flapper Dowie [...] was the forerunner of the Salvarmy as regards street marching and open-air tootling generally.
1913		A. Lunn Harrovians 112: Almost ninety years old and tootles down to watch every match.
1945		J.B. Priestly Three Men in New Suits 76: Tootle off, and don’t forget to tell me tomorrow about about this fella.
1957		‘Weldon Hill’ Onionhead (1958) 76: The master-at-arms came tootling down the aisle.
1976		(con. 1944) J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 49: I’ll tootle over and ask her.
1983		J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 55: [P]rovided the weather wasn’t too crook, a team of the regulars used to tootle across The Bridge.
1988		A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 221: I thought I’d tootle down to the Coleherne.
1996		J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 276: The first thing he did when his boat got in were [sic] to [...] tootle down into town.
2004		T. Winton ‘Abbreviation’ in Turning (2005) 20: The carrot-top cousins squealed for a ride in the boat [...] they were tootled around the shallows.
2020		G. Disher Consolation 219: [H]he spotted Tilly Wanganeen tootling out of a side street on her red and white Australia Post Honda.