tootle

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tootle - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Tootle \Too"tle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tootled; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Tootling.] [Freq. of toot.]
     To toot gently, repeatedly, or continuously, on a wind
     instrument, as a flute; also, to make a similar noise by any
     means. "The tootling robin." --John Clare.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

tootle - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  tootle
      n 1: the sound of casual playing on a musical instrument; "he
           enjoyed hearing the tootles of their horns as the musicians
           warmed up"
      v 1: play (a musical instrument) casually; "the saxophone player
           was tootling a sad melody"

tootle - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "tootle":
     bagpipe, bay, beep, bell, blare, blast, blat, blow, blow a horn,
     blow the horn, bray, bugle, carillon, clarion, doodle,
     double-tongue, fanfare, fife, flourish of trumpets, flute, honk,
     lip, peal, pipe, shriek, sound, sound a tattoo, sound taps, squeal,
     tantara, tantarara, taps, tarantara, tattoo, tongue, toot,
     triple-tongue, trumpet, trumpet blast, trumpet call, tweedle,
     whistle, wind, wind the horn