▪ I. tutty, n.1
(ˈtʌtɪ)
Forms: α. 4–7 tutie, (6 thutie), 5–8 tuty, (5 tutye, tuthye); β. in Latinized form 6–9 tutia, (6 tucia, 7 tussia); γ. 6– tutty, (7 tuttie, tutti).
[a. F. tutie 13th c. in Wr.-Wülcker 559/13) = Sp. tutia, atutia, Pg. and med.L. tutia (erron. tucia); a. Arab. tūtiyā oxide of zinc (marked as a foreign word in Arabic lists, perh. Persian). Vullers compares the Sanskrit tuttha blue vitriol, used as an eye-ointment, and this is favoured by the statement of Ibn Baitar that the best tūtiyā comes from India.]
A crude oxide of zinc found adhering in grey or brownish flakes to the flues of furnaces in which brass is melted (cf. pompholyx); also occurring in some countries as a native mineral; formerly used medically, chiefly in astringent ointments and lotions, and now as a polishing powder. Also attrib. as tutty ointment, tutty powder.
| α c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 95 Anoynte þe wounde..with þis oynement of rasis & tutie [v.rr. tutye, tuthye]. c 1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. lxxxvii. 95 Stones, Margarites, Corale, Tuty, and alany, and swylk lyk. 1541 R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 H j b, Pampholix commonly called thutie. c 1550 H. Lloyd Treas. Health (1585) {fatpara}ij, Tuty doth dry and clear the eyes, more than all medycynes. 1601 Holland Pliny xxx. viii. II. 384 The tried grease of unwashed wooll, (whereunto some adde Tutie and oile of Roses). 1610 B. Jonson Alch. ii. iii. 398 Your marchesite, your tutie, your magnesia. [1656–1706 in Blount and Phillips.] |
| β 1543 Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. 107 b/1 Let the sayd thynges be boyled togyther, excepte the tutia. 1581 Styward Mart. Discipl. i. 12 They ought to haue..greate store of..Tarre, Campher, Waxe, Tucia, Ars-nicke. 1615 Markham Eng. Housew. (1660) 17 Take two drams of prepared Tussia. 1652 Culpepper Eng. Physic (1656) 308 For Distillations of Rhewms in the Eyes, especially if it be used with Tutia. 1678 R. R[ussell] Geber iii. ii. i. iv. 149 Tutia is the fume of White Bodies. 1727–41 [see γ]. |
| γ 1547 Boorde Brev. Health ccv. 71 To bedwarde anoynt the eyes divers tymes with Tutty. 1605 Timme Quersit. iii. 179 Infuse tuttie and lytharge, of each two ounces. 1682 Wheler Journ. Greece iii. 223, I was shewed a dried Herb..whereof the Powder is made, we commonly call Tutti. 1727–41 Chambers Cycl., Tutty, Tutia, or Lapis Tutiæ... Tutty is now brought chiefly from Germany. Anciently it came from Alexandria. 1731 Fielding Grubstreet Opera ii. iv, Your bills for tutty and rotten-stone, when you us'd nothing but poor whiting. 1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (1821) 119 The better sorts of Tutty..are in semi-cylindrical concave pieces, like the bark of a tree; ponderous, and somewhat sonorous. 1868 Watts Dict. Chem. V. 1073 An impure oxide, sold under the name of tutty, is obtained from the furnaces in which brass is melted. 1883 Chambers' Encycl., Tutty-powder. 1890 Cent. Dict. s.v. Ointment, Tutty ointment. |
▪ II. tutty, n.2 Now dial.
(ˈtʌtɪ)
Forms: 6 tuttay, -ey, 7 -ie, titty, 9 dial. totty, tutto, 7– tutty (also in comb. 9 tutti-).
[Origin obscure: perh. orig. a nursery or children's word. Cf. tussy, tuzzy-muzzy.]
A nosegay, a posy; a tuft or bunch of flowers.
| 1578 Lyte Dodoens iii. xxii. 344 At the highest of the stalkes groweth white flowers..ioyning one to another lyke a tuttay, or little nosegaye. Ibid. vi. xvi. 677 Two kindes of Heath, one..bearing his flowers in tutteys or tuftes. 1599 Minsheu Span. Dict., A Tuttie, nosegay, or poesie, ramilléte de florés. c 1613 T. Campion Bk. Ayres i. i. ‘Jack & Joan they think no ill’ iii, She can wreathes and tuttyes make. 1664 [see tuzzy-muzzy]. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Tutty or Tuzzimuzzy, an old Word for a Nosegay. a 1800 Pegge Suppl. Grose, Tutty, and Titty, a nosegay. Somersetsh. 1825 J. Jennings Obs. Dial. W. Eng. 128 When spreng, adresst in tutties, Calls all tha birds abroad. 1904 19th Cent. Sept. 233, I had a tutty—a nosegay,..zix times zo big as the biggest picklen cabbage. |
b. Comb.: tutty men, tuttimen pl., at Hungerford, tithingmen who collect contributions on Hock Tuesday, carrying a tutty-pole, wreathed with flowers and ribbons; tutty-more: see quot. 1873.
| 1873 Williams & Jones Somerset Gloss., Tutty, flower. Tutty-more, flower-root. 1893 Wilts. Gloss. s.v. Totty, At Hungerford the tything-men are known as Tutti-men, and carry Tutti-poles, or wands wreathed with flowers. 1904 Daily News 13 Apr. 11 The tutti-men sallied forth, armed with staves, adorned with handsome bouquets. |
▪ III. † ˈtutty, a.1 Obs. rare.
[Of obscure origin; cf. the dial. verb tut, to be uneven in length or height.]
Of ground: Uneven, hummocky. Also in comb. tutty-nosed, ? snub-nosed.
| 1607 Markham Caval. iii. (1617) 29 If the ground bee tuttie, and full of false treading (which we call broken swarth)..then he must gather vp his body round and close. 1681 T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 39 (1713) I. 255 It is a little Tutty-nos'd yappeting Sprite; the Good Old Cause's Lap-Dog. |
▪ IV. tutty, a.2 dial.
(ˈtʌtɪ)
[Of obscure origin: cf. teety, tetty.]
Irritable, testy, peevish.
| 1809 T. Batchelor Anal. Eng. Lang. 145 Tutty, ill-tempered, sullen. 1848 A. B. Evans Leicestersh. Words, Tutty, touchy. 1855 [see teety]. 1902 Baring-Gould Nebo the Nailer vii, He's that tutty, if not minded at wunce. |