Tot \Tot\, n. [L.] Lit., so much; -- a term used in the English exchequer to indicate that a debt was good or collectible for the amount specified, and often written opposite the item. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Tot \Tot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Totted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Totting}.] 1. To mark with the word ``tot''; as, a totted debt. See {Tot}, n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. [Cf. {Total}.] To add; to count; to make up the sum of; to total; -- often with up. [Colloq., Eng.]
The last two tot up the bill. --Thackeray. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Tot \Tot\, n. [Cf. {Toddle}, {Tottle}, {Totter}.] 1. Anything small; -- frequently applied as a term of endearment to a little child.
2. A drinking cup of small size, holding about half a pint. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
3. A foolish fellow. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
I use no thickeners apart from a tot of cream if that is to hand.
In 1977, Beall and Nipp were fumbling about for forgotten verses to traditional tot songs.
The taxi-driver tells me that last year he picked up a little old lady who had just done her 147th show and who hoped to tot up 200 before the festival was over.
Adds William Hatton, Nathan's adoptive father: "I don't see a great deal of advantage to adopting the same race." But from the time he was a tot, color made Nathan the outsider.
Amy was born and raised in debtor's prison, and has made her life's work taking care of her father and her two siblings; her mother died when she was a tot.