Afrikaans

Noun

Totty ‎(plural [please provide])

1. (slang, archaic) a 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.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɒti/
• Rhymes: -ɒti

Noun

totty ‎(uncountable)

1. (Britain, slang, English) sexually attractive women considered collectively; usually connoting a connection with the upper class.
2. (slang, English) an individual sexually attractive woman
   • 2005, Georgina Hunter-Jones, Peckham Diamonds, Fly Fizzi Publishing, ISBN 1900721309, page 19:

     The mother screamed that Ali was a posh totty who held her nose up at ordinary folk with babies.

   • 2006, Richard Taylor, Eddie Shore 4 Jo, Lulu Press, Inc., ISBN 1411696077, page 29:

     Some posh totty, who was more than a little bit of a babe, just walks up and makes Eddie pull her, against his will almost.

   • 2006, Tonto Greenberg and J Bannister, The Blue Book : V. 1, Banland Publishing Ltd, ISBN 0955151309, page 32:

     The doctor attended a fancy dress ball dressed as Star Trek's Dr Spock but suddenly the costume split open and his phaser found its way into some totty.

Usage notes

Although denoting a countable subject, the noun is most often a mass noun. A single person is described as "some totty" or "a bit of totty". But a group of people can also be referred to as "some totty" or "the totty".

Related terms

• hotty

Synonyms

• talent

Etymology 2

Compare totter.

Adjective

totty ‎(comparative more totty, superlative most totty)

1. (Britain, obsolete, dialect) unsteady; dizzy; tottery
   • Spenser

     For yet his noule [head] was totty of the must.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)

Etymology 3

From tot ‎(“small child”)

Alternative forms

• totey
• toaty

Adjective

totty

1. (now chiefly Scotland) Tiny, wee.
   • 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 6:

     She would meet me with a summerbag: shoes and the little black number, though it had a totey hole at the shoulder […].