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TOODLE-OO meaning: 1. a way of saying goodbye: 2. a way of saying goodbye: . Learn more.
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The British term ‘toodle-oo’ is a fellow-traveller of various terms associated with walking or departing in a carefree manner – toddle, tootle and their extended forms toddle-off and tootle-pip. Let’s also not forget tootle-oo, which is a commonly heard alternative form of toodle-oo, and also its Irish variant tooraloo.
4 meanings: British informal, rare goodbye → 1. farewell: a conventional expression used at leave-taking or parting with people.... Click for more definitions.
The earliest uses of ‘toodle-pip’ in print come not from England but Canada and Australia. The earliest I know of is in a letter written by a resident of Vancouver, Canada in the newspaper The Leader Post, June 1935: It’s an old southern custom to never stay too long, so toodle-pip. By southern I assume the writer meant southern Canada.
1900s. The earliest known use of the interjection toodle-oo is in the 1900s. OED's earliest evidence for toodle-oo is from 1907, in Punch. toodle-oo is of unknown origin. See etymology.
Toodle-oo. The salutation toodle-oo, meaning “good-bye” or “so long,” is forever associated with carefree, upper-class Brits, in part because of its frequent use in the works of Wodehouse. Its use began in the years after 1900, and is thought to have its origins in the sound of the then-newfangled car horns that sometimes signaled ...
Toodle-oo definition: goodbye; so long. See examples of TOODLE-OO used in a sentence.
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