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Definition: TUT |
TUT1. Be still; hush; -- an exclamation used for checking or rebuking. Noun1. A hassock. 2. An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it. |
Date "TUT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references) |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TUT | English | Tampere University of Technology | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
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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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | 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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| "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. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Tut tut tut |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Interjection | 71.43% | 75 | 38,535 |
| Noun (proper) | 17.14% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.67% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.86% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.9% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 105 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | TUT Systems, Inc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
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. | |
| 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. |
| 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. | ||
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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TUT" (pronounced tu"t) |
| 2 | -u" t | abut, 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. | ||
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. | |
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