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Teetotum

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TEETOTUM GAMBLING TOP - SMALL BRASS SPINNING TOP - GIFTS FOR MEN Brand: ButterfieldMachine. 5.0 out of 5 stars 2 ratings. Price: $35.00 & FREE Shipping. Just spent a week at Teetotum with our 10 year old son and we all really enjoyed staying at this hotel, The staff were all so friendly &the freshly cooked wonderful. After a day visiting the sites, beach, cenotes or Xel Ha park this was the perfect hotel to return to and chill in the courtyard, small pool and bar.

/ tiˈtoʊ təm /

noun

Teetotum hotel
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

Words nearby teetotum

teething troubles, teethridge, teetotal, teetotaler, teetotalism, teetotum, teevee, tef, teff, tefillah, tefillin
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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

Define

nounarchaic

Teetotum Meaning

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

Word Origin for teetotum

Teetotum Put And Take

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

Teetotum Hotel Tulum

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