Definitions for tutu

tutu tu·tu

Spelling: [too-too; French ty-ty]
IPA: /ˈtu tu; French tüˈtü/

Tutu is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 12 anagrams from letters in tutu (ttuu).

Definitions for tutu

noun

  1. a short, full skirt, usually made of several layers of tarlatan or tulle, worn by ballerinas.
  2. Desmond (Mpilo) [uh m-pee-loh] /əmˈpi loʊ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, South African Anglican clergyman and civil-rights activist: Nobel Peace Prize 1984; archbishop of Cape Town since 1986.

Origin of tutu

Borrowed into English from French around 1925-30

Examples for tutu

From there, the life of The tutu becomes as fascinating as the novel itself.

A man called tutu and his wife Ila reached the island of tutuila, and named it so by the union of their names.

In November 2011, Carlton “tutu” Archer of the Tooka gang was shot to death.

A tutu clad Swift refuses to pirouette with her fellow ballerinas, preferring to pelvic thrust like a rebel instead.

No one else—not even tutu himself—had the moral authority to hold South Africa together.

And the little old man walked away, humming: "tutu—turlututu—lututu!"

She stands, dressed in a tutu, on one pointed foot in a heightened fifth position.

The name Marduk appears here under the ideographic designation tutu.

tutu the man and Ila the woman came from the eastward, and dwelt on the island.

(b) Plautus represents the hoot of an owl by tutu in the Menaechmi, 654; and in the Carm.

Word Value for tutu
Scrable

4

Words with friends

6

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