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tótian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
tótian, p. ode
To peep out, look; Halliwell gives toot=to pry inquisitively, as a Northern word
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  • Se ceác oferhelede ða oxan ealle búton ða heáfudu tótodon út

    the basin covered the oxen entirely, except that the heads peeped out;

    luterem boves portant, qui facie exterius eminent, sed ex posterioribus latent,
      Past. 16; Swt. 105, 5.
Etymology
[Ech man þe cumeð pleie to toten (look at) oðer to listen, O. E. Homl. ii. 211, 20. Is hit so ouer vuel nor te toten (lokin, MS. T. ) utward ? . . . Toten vt wiðuten vuel ne mei nouðer of ou, & nim jeme hwat vuel beo icumen of totinge, A. R. 52, 2-II. Euer se recluses toteó more utwardes, 92, 7. Ajein kunde hit is, þ te deade totie, 50, 25. He bad me toten on þe tree. Piers P. 16, 22. He maketh him ecte and pry, Gow. ii. 143, 6. He stod and totede in, Havel. 2106. þanne totede y into a tauerne, Pl. Cr. 339. His bon toteden out, 425. See also note on totehylle, Prompt. Parv. 497, and tootere speculator, Wick. Is. 21, 6.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “tótian.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/30910.

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