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/ tiˈtoʊ təm /

noun

a kind of die having four sides, each marked with a different initial letter, spun with the fingers in an old game of chance.
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Origin ofteetotum

1710–20; earlier T totum, alteration of totum name of toy (<Latin tōtum, neuter of tōtus all) by prefixing its initial letter, which appeared on one side of the toy

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Example sentences from the Web for teetotum

  • Warble was unfamiliar with the teetotum-like things, but the others kindly instructed her.

  • The boat was a villainous little tub, and appeared to me to go round like a teetotum.

    With an Ambulance During the Franco-German War Charles Edward Ryan
  • Every one appears to patronize the contrivance, and you constantly hear the click of the teetotum along the beach.

    A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees Edwin Asa Dix
  • Scopperil, skop′e-ril, n. a top: teetotum: the bone-foundation of a button.

    Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) Various
  • Mr. Bright used to say he could not turn his back on himself, but Mr. Gladstone spins round and round like a teetotum.

British Dictionary definitions forteetotum

Teetotum Dice

nounarchaic

a spinning top bearing letters of the alphabet on its four sides

Word Origin for teetotum

C18: from T totum, from T initial inscribed on one of the faces + totum the name of the toy, from Latin tōtum the whole

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