name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
tutu
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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US: /ˈtutu/
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UK: /ˈtuːtuː/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -uːtuː
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New-Zealand: [ˈtʉːˌtʉː]
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New-Zealand: /ˈtʊtʉː/
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CMU ARPABET: T UW1 T UW2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The ballet dancer representing the swan wore a white tutu.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Any of certain members of genus Coriaria of shrubs and trees found in New Zealand, including Coriaria arborea and Coriaria pottsiana, used by the Maori to make a sweetener, but toxic when not properly prepared.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Zealand
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: toot plant, tupakihi
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
to fiddle or mess around with something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Zealand, childish
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
very short skirt worn by ballerinas
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ballet skirt
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: skirt
noun
Meaning 6
South African prelate and leader of the antiapartheid struggle (born in 1931)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Desmond Tutu
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: archpriest, hierarch, high priest, prelate, primate
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French tutu, from cucu (“bum, bottom”), playful reduplication of cul (“arse”).
Borrowed from Māori tutu.
From Māori tutū (“mischievous, disobedient”).
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: tutu — ballet skirt
- Catalan: tutú — ballet skirt
- Chinese Mandarin: 芭蕾舞裙 (bālěiwǔqún) — ballet skirt
- Danish: strutteskørt — ballet skirt
- Dutch: tutu — ballet skirt
- Finnish: tutu — ballet skirt
- French: tutu — ballet skirt
- German: Tutu — ballet skirt
- Hungarian: tütü — ballet skirt
- Irish: tútú — ballet skirt
- Italian: tutù — ballet skirt
- Japanese: チュチュ (chuchu) — ballet skirt
- Korean: 튀튀 (twitwi) — ballet skirt
- Maltese: tutu — ballet skirt
- Norwegian Bokmål: strutteskjørt — ballet skirt
- Norwegian Nynorsk: strutteskjørt — ballet skirt
- Portuguese: tutu — ballet skirt
- Russian: па́чка (páčka) — ballet skirt
- Spanish: tutú — ballet skirt
- Swedish: tutu — ballet skirt
- Turkish: tütü — ballet skirt
- Vietnamese: váy xoè — ballet skirt