Totty

See also: totty

English

Etymology 1

Noun

Totty (plural Totties)

1. (archaic, offensive) Hottentot
   • 1859, William and Robert Chambers, CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL OF POPULAR LITERATURE SCIENCE AND ARTS, London: W. & R. Chambers:

     Only the elite of the party are here assembled; for it would be little short of sacrelige for a Totty or a Caffre to presume to enter these sacred precincts, or to join in the conversation of the master

   • 1879, Alfred Wilks Drayson, Among the Zulus: The Adventures of Hans Sterk, South African Hunter and Pioneer, Griffith and Farran, page 338:

     Between the Totty and the Kaffir a deadly hatred exists, the former seeming to have a natural love for hunting the latter.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Totty

1. Alternative form of Tottie (“female name, short for Charlotte”)

Afrikaans

Etymology

A contraction of Hottentot.

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Noun

Totty (plural [please provide])

1. (slang, archaic) a Hottentot