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TUT

Definition: TUT

TUT

1. Be still; hush; -- an exclamation used for checking or rebuking.

Noun

1. A hassock.

2. An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "TUT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: TUT

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

TUT

EnglishTampere University of TechnologyN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms within Context: TUT

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Disapprobation

Forbid it Heaven! God forbid, Heaven forbid! out upon, fie upon it! away with! tut! O tempora! O mores! shame! fie, fie for shame! out on you!

Taciturnity

Interjection: shush! tush! silence! mum! hush! chut! hist! tut! chup! mum's the word; keep your mouth shut!.

Unimportance

Interjection: no matter! pish! tush! tut! pshaw! pugh! pooh,pooh-pooh! fudge! bosh! humbug! fiddlestick, fiddlestick end! fiddlededee! never mind! n'importe! what signifies it, what boots it, what of it, what of that, what matter, what's the odds, a fig for' stuff and nonsense, stuff! nonsense!

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: TUT

Specialty definitions using "TUT": Home Phoneline Networking Alliance. (references)
Non-English Usage: "TUT" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (hushed), German (does, it does), Norwegian (honk), Scottish (interjection of cold or impatience), Swedish (hoot, toot), Turkmen (mulberry).

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Modern Usage: TUT

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Meine Nichte tut das nicht (1960)

Tante Tut fra Paris (1956)

Meine Tochter tut das nicht (1940)

Es tut sich was um Mitternacht (1934)

Tut! Tut! King (1923)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: TUT

DomainTitle

References

  • TUT Systems, Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: TUT

Illustrations:
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Computer Images:
TUT

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Photo Album: TUT

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Robert R. Robinson, kennel master at the White House for Herbert Hoover's dogs, Buckeye, a German police dog; King Tut, a Belgian police dog; and Englehurst Gillette, a Gordon setter. Credit: Library of Congress.

Aufrustung tut not!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: TUT
 

"Taxi!" by Michelle Ho
Commentary: "A typical Thailand's 'taxi' called the 'Tut Tut Car'."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Use in Literature: TUT

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Tut tut tut

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TUT

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

TUT handles the provisioning and distribution of supplies and materials for ST and also the production and servicing of supplementary items such as telephone booths. (references)

Slovak Telecom subsidiaries Telemont and TUT -(Warehousing and Distribution Company) play supporting roles for ST. Telemont carries out the technical installation of all types of equipment in the telecommunication network, and depending on availability it may also offer its services outside the company. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: TUT

"TUT" is generally used as an interjection -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "TUT" is used about 105 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Interjection71.43%7538,535
Noun (proper)17.14%1882,615
Lexical Verb (base form)6.67%7133,076
Noun (singular)2.86%3202,518
Lexical Verb (infinitive)1.9%2245,945
                    Total100.00%105N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: TUT

CountryName
USA

TUT Systems, Inc

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: TUT

Expressions using "TUT": tut tut tut tut!. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "TUT": Tut-mouthed, Tut-nose, tut-tut, tut-tuts, tut-tutted, tut-tutting, Tut-work, Tut-workman, Tut-workmen.

Ending with "TUT": tut-tut.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TUT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

king tut

788

king treasure tut

5

tut

93

tut taylor

5

king tut picture

45

king mystery quest tut web

5

by tut

43

king tut vibrator

5

tut system

25

killed king tut who

4

king tut steve martin

24

king tut photo

4

psp tut

19

biography king tut

4

king tut mask

14

king martin mp3 steve tut

4

king tut tomb

13

king martins steve tut

4

curse of king tut

12

king lyrics martin steve tut

4

psp tag tut

11

king tattoo tut

4

tut world.com

11

costume king tut

4

king life tut

11

king lyrics tut

4

king tut exhibit

9

death king mask tut

3

information king tut

8

excel trio tut usd.edu

3

king tut song

8

candy eye tut

3

photo shop tut

6

ancient egypt king tut

3

history king tut

6

die republik tut

3

egypt king tut

5

batman king tut

3

king pic tut

5

game king tut

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TUT

Language Translations for "TUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

s'është punë që bëhet kjo (tut tut), pf (tut tut). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏صيغة إستهجان, ‏صيغة شك. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

пфу (pah, pish, pshaw), пф. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

accoordwerker ( belgie ) (bargain taker, contractor ( s-wales ), jobber, piece worker, tributer ( ore mining ), tut worker), accoord-arbeider (bargain taker, contractor ( s-wales ), jobber, piece worker, tributer ( ore mining ), tut worker). (various references)

   

French

  

zut (tut tut), pousser une exclamation désapprobatrice. (various references)

   

German

  

Unsinn! (Rats!). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σιωπή (hist, hush, mum, silence, tut tut), μεταλλευτής αμοιβόμενος με το κομμάτι (bargain taker, contractor ( s-wales ), jobber, piece worker, tributer ( ore mining ), tut worker). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

די! (enough of that). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szakmánymunka (piecework, task-work), darabbérben végzett munka, csettintés nyelvvel, akkordmunka (piecework). (various references)

   

Italian

  

non si fa così. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

舌打ち (clicking tongue, smacking lips, tut-tut). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

したうち (clicking tongue, smacking lips, tut-tut). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uttay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

tt, asta-i bunã (that's a good one, well, well I declare), ah (ah, dear me, goodness me, hah, heigh-ho, my goodness, oh, oh heavens, oho, phew, pshaw, sigh, very well, well). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

цыц. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pih! fuj (tut tut). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

vamos (c'mon, come along, come now, come on, jump in, let's go, we are going), qué horror (how awful), pche (tut tut), hacer un gesto de desaprobación, gesto de desaprobación, eso no. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

asch (pah, pooh, tut tut). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

cik cik (peep, tut tut). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сидіння із соломи, тьху (pooh, ugh), висловлювати нетерпіння вигуком, ах ти. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: TUT

Derivations

Words beginning with "TUT": tutee, tutees, tutelage, tutelages, tutelar, tutelaries, tutelars, tutelary, tutor, tutorage, tutorages, tutored, tutoress, tutoresses, tutorial, tutorials, tutoring, tutors, tutorship, tutorships, tutoyed, tutoyer, tutoyered, tutoyering, tutoyers, tuts, tutted, tutti, tutties, tutting, tuttis, tutty, tutu, tutus. (additional references)

Words ending with "TUT": butut. (additional references)

Words containing "TUT": antiprostitution, astute, astutely, astuteness, astutenesses, bututs, constitute, constituted, constitutes, constituting, constitution, constitutional, constitutionalism, constitutionalisms, constitutionalist, constitutionalists, constitutionalities, constitutionality, constitutionalization, constitutionalizations, constitutionalize, constitutionalized, constitutionalizes, constitutionalizing, constitutionally, constitutionals, constitutionless, constitutions, constitutive, constitutively, counterinstitution, counterinstitutions, deinstitutionalization, deinstitutionalizations, deinstitutionalize, deinstitutionalized, deinstitutionalizes, deinstitutionalizing, destitute, destituteness, destitutenesses, destitution, destitutions, disubstituted, institute, instituted, instituter, instituters, institutes, instituting, institution. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "TUT"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "TUT" (pronounced tu"t)
2-u" tabut, but, butt, cut, glut, gut, hut, jut, mutt, nut, phut, putt, rebut, rut, shut, smut, somewhat, strut, uncut, what.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: TUT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "t-t-u"

-1 letter: ut.

 Words containing the letters "t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: butt, mutt, putt, taut, tout, tuft, tuts, tutu.

 

+2 letters: battu, butte, butts, butty, butut, cutty, gutta, gutty, jutty, mutts, nutty, putti, putto, putts, putty, rutty, stout, strut, stunt, sturt, sutta, taunt, tauts, touts, trout, trust, truth, tufts, tufty, tutee, tutor, tutti, tutty, tutus, utter.

 

+3 letters: astute, attune, battue, butted, butter, buttes, button, bututs, catgut, cutest, cutlet, cutout, cutter, cuttle, guttae, gutted, gutter, guttle, hutted, intuit, jutted, kaputt, lutist, mutant, mutate, mutest, mutter, mutton, nutant, nutate, nutlet, nutted, nutter, outact, outate, outeat, outfit, outhit, outjut, outlet, output, outsat, outset, outsit, outwit, prutot, putout, putted, puttee, putter, rotgut, rutted, setout, slutty, smutty, statue, status, stouts, strunt, struts, stunts, sturts, suttas, suttee, taught, taunts, tauted, tauten, tauter, tautly, tautog, tectum, tenuti, tenuto, thrust, tittup, toquet, touted, touter, trouts, trouty, truant, truest, trusts, trusty, truths, tryout, tubate, tubist, tucket, tuffet, tufted, tufter, tumult, turbit, turbot, turret, turtle, tutees, tutors, tutted, tuttis, uptilt, urtext, utmost, utters.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Names: Company Usage
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Abbreviations
16. Acronyms
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Bibliography


  

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