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1. idioms.thefreedictionary.com › Toodle-ooToodle-oo - Idioms by The Free Dictionary

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   Definition of toodle-oo in the Idioms Dictionary. toodle-oo phrase. ... 1 Decking 2 Retainer 3 Area 4 Parallel 5 Wi-fi 6 Essex 8 Wisdom teeth 13 ... too-cool-for ...

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2. www.phrases.org.uk › meanings › toodle-ooToodle-oo - Meaning & Origin Of The Phrase - Phrasefinder

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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.

3. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishTOODLE-OO definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   4 meanings: British informal, rare goodbye → 1. farewell: a conventional expression used at leave-taking or parting with people.... Click for more definitions.

4. dictionary.cambridge.org › english › toodle-ooTOODLE-OO | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   TOODLE-OO definition: 1. a way of saying goodbye: 2. a way of saying goodbye: . Learn more.

5. idioms.thefreedictionary.com › toodleooToodleoo - Idioms by The Free Dictionary

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   toodle-oo A quaint, informal, and lighthearted expression of farewell. Primarily heard in UK. Thank you for your hospitality, but I had best be going. Toodle-oo! She waved out ...

6. www.oed.com › dictionary › toodle-oo_inttoodle-oo interjection - Oxford English Dictionary

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   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.

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   When did the word Toodle come into English?

   • [1905–10; perh. toodle (var. of dial. tootle to toddle) + -oo interjection] This word is first recorded in the period 1905–10. Other words that entered English at around the same time include: Expressionism, airway, cadre, one-shot, stabilizer

   TOODLE-OO definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   Where does the interjection Toodle-Oo come from?

   • 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.

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   What does toodleoo mean?

   • Toodleoo!” “Good-bye.” “Pip-pip!” Reggie withdrew. Tootle-oo is first known from a date that is near enough to that of toodle-oo as to make it difficult to be certain which came first. This variant is recorded in the Letters of T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia), in 1908.

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   Where did the word 'Toddle off' come from?

   • The word is still with us in the term ‘toddle off’ which, although somewhat archaic in sound, is still commonplace in the UK at least. This was in use by the early 19th century and appears in The Dublin University Magazine, 1838: “Show this gentleman to his bedchamber, Klaus… and I’ll toddle off to my library,” said the Nabob.

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   What does 'Tootle' mean?

   • ‘Tootle’, which also often comes complete with its ‘off’, has been used to mean ‘walk aimlessly’ since at least the early 1900s, for example, this piece from the English literary journal The Cornhill Magazine, July 1902: “I tootled down to Cooney’s a half-hour before time.”

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8. forum.wordreference.com › threads › toodledootoodledoo - WordReference Forums

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   Nov 19, 2012 · Regarding your opinion that "toodle-oo" is an international English form (where I think it isn't AE at all), unless you're elderly (since I ain't no spring chicken myself ), I continue to disagree (as respectively as you like, but in Kentucky we bang our fists on tables to make our point ). I heard it for the first time when I was about 10, used by a British exchange student (from Essex ...