Sc. [Not recorded before 19th c.; ? playful shortening of totter or tottle. Connection with TOT sb.4 1 ‘tiny child’ uncertain.] intr. ‘To move with short steps as a child does’ (Jamieson, 1825); to totter; to toddle; also playfully, to walk, go, move.
1824. W. Jameson, in Mem. & Lett. (1845), 46. My little Benoni is gathering strength and totting about.
1844. A. McKay, in Mod. Sc. Poets, II. 377. When ye were wee bairnies, tot, totting about.
c. 1850. Whistle-binkie (1890), II. Songs Nursery, 81. Awa they tot wi’ ane anither.
