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say it: TOO-tuhl
tootle is a noun and verb meaning "the sound of casual playing on a musical instrument". It is pronounced /ˈtutəl/ — TOO-tuhl. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the sound of casual playing on a musical instrument
“he enjoyed hearing the tootles of their horns as the musicians warmed up”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tootle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.