? sb. (? a.). Obs. [f. ME. tot-en, TOOT v.1, to peep out, pry, + (perh.) -ild, fem. suffix, as in beggild, begenild, cheapild, fostrild, etc.] ? A peeping, peering, or prying woman.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 102. Hweðer eni totilde [so also Corpus] ancre uondede euer þis, þet bekeð [C. breakeð] euer utward ase untowe brid ine cage?
[But the attrib. or adj. use, and the final -e, suggest that totilde here is perh. a scribal error for totinde, pr. pple. of toten, TOOT v.1: cf totinde ancres, ibid. 50 and 100.]
