tootle

1. 1.

   the sound of casual playing on a musical instrument

   “he enjoyed hearing the tootles of their horns as the musicians warmed up”

   Broadersound

1. 1.

   play (a musical instrument) casually

   “the saxophone player was tootling a sad melody”

   Broaderhonk

Other forms of tootle

plural

tootles·

past tense

tootled·

present participle

tootling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tootle

What does tootle mean?

tootle means "the sound of casual playing on a musical instrument". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tootle?

tootle has 2 syllables: too-tle. The stress falls on "too". In IPA it is /ˈtutəl/.

Is tootle a common word?

tootle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.