Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To express annoyance, impatience, or mild reproof.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- interjection An expression of
annoyance orimpatience . - verb To express such a sound, especially as a mild
reproof
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The markets certainly took fright at this news with Goldman shares dropping 4.7 per cent in response, accompanied by much tut-tut ting from the financial cognoscenti.
Julian Kossoff: After the Humiliation of Rupert Murdoch, Comeuppance for Goldman Sachs? Julian Kossoff 2011
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Moss said in a recent interview: I always take my make-up off, because otherwise my daughter will come in and say 'Mummy, tut-tut'.
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This way, we all get to enjoy the exquisite gowns and drawing rooms and tut-tut over the servants' dreadful working conditions, from the moral safety of the 21st century.
Downton Abbey's just the opiate of the middle classes | Barbara Ellen 2012
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With a "tut-tut" of his baton, he restores order and starts the music, a gorgeous wave of sound.
Can Christoph Eschenbach and the National Symphony Orchestra give each other a fresh start? Anne Midgette 2010
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The politically correct may tut-tut the portrayal of the woman as unstable and the conservatives might think it too naughty.
Melody Breyer-Grell: Cracks is Girls Gone Wild ala The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (in a Good Way) Melody Breyer-Grell 2011
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Gabby online news sites, such as Bianca Stefani's Stefani Report a thinly veiled version of the Huffington Post float salacious stories, while the mainstream media tut-tut and report on the controversy surrounding the rumors.
Oh . Ron Charles 2011
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But an equal problem is that when someone does play hardball, the rest of the prissy liberal Mugwumps tut-tut them about it.
Dissents: Jack Conway's Aqua-Buddha ad Ezra Klein 2010
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He wants to be see an HCR bill pass, while still being able to stand aside and tut-tut his fellow Democrats for being so partisan? fletc3her says:
Matthew Yglesias » Reconciliation Points the Way to Bipartisanship 2010
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As a final note, it is the most common thing to sniff at Thompsons's rhetoric and to tut-tut him for his impolite and impolitic ways, as if "we all know" that we are not to speak this way about those who so selflessly and generously do their best to lift us up in song week after week at Mass.
The "greedy cartel of guitar-strumming copyright hawks" 2009
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The politically correct may tut-tut the portrayal of the woman as unstable and the conservatives might think it too naughty.
Melody Breyer-Grell: Cracks is Girls Gone Wild ala The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (in a Good Way) Melody Breyer-Grell 2011
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