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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.
informal old-fashioned or humorous uk / ˌtuː.d ə lˈuː / us / ˌtuː.d ə lˈuː / (also UK toodle-pip, uk / ˌtuː.d ə lˈpɪp / us / ˌtuː.d ə lˈpɪp / toodles, / ˈtuː.d ə lz / us / ˈtuː.d ə lz /) Add to word list. a way of saying goodbye: Toodle-oo! I'm off.
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the interjection toodle-oo. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
Jun 12, 2024 · toodle-oo Alternative spelling of toodeloo . 1904 September, George R. Sims, “Off The Track in London V.--Round Hackney Wick”, in The Strand Magazine [1] , London: George Newnes, Ltd., archived from the original on 2016-08-22 , page 329 :
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 arrivals and ...
Toodle-oo/toodle-pip. British informal expressions meaning goodbye that were popular at the turn of the 19th/20th century and may have given rise to the salutary greeting pip-pip, which dates from the same era. The origin is unknown. We are human. There will inevitably be some errors.
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Toodle-oo definition: goodbye; so long. See examples of TOODLE-OO used in a sentence.
