a whimsical expansion of TOOTSY.
1856. Punch, 4 Oct., 134, in Leech, Pict. Life & Char., Ser. III. 18. The brutality of connecting in any way such words [as Beetle-crusher] with the feminine Tootsicums.
1858. ‘Fanny Fern,’ in The Gazette (Montreal), 9 Jan., 1/5. So it’s us—us, women, ladies, us, the delicious little blue-eyed trembleers, at whose tiny toosicums you’ve been kneeling for nobody know how long.
1875. Besant & Rice, With Harp & Crown, III. xi. 198. Beer is the real magnet for the male feet. Champagne, as you know, draws the feminine tootsicums.
