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English
Etymology 1
Noun
Totty (plural Totties)
- (archaic, offensive) Hottentot
1859, William and Robert Chambers, CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL OF POPULAR LITERATURE SCIENCE AND ARTS, London: W. & R. Chambers:Only the elite of the party are here assembled; for it would be little short of sacrelige for a Totty or a Caffre to presume to enter these sacred precincts, or to join in the conversation of the master
1879, Alfred Wilks Drayson, Among the Zulus: The Adventures of Hans Sterk, South African Hunter and Pioneer, Griffith and Farran, page 338:Between the Totty and the Kaffir a deadly hatred exists, the former seeming to have a natural love for hunting the latter.
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Totty
- Alternative form of Tottie (“female name, short for Charlotte”)
Afrikaans
Etymology
A contraction of Hottentot.
Pronunciation
Noun
Totty (plural )
- (slang, archaic) a Hottentot