Obs. rare. In 5 totte, 7 toute. [Origin unascertained.] A person of disordered brain, a simpleton, a fool.
c. 1425. Cast. Persev., 2880, in Macro Plays, 162. Werldlys good þou hast for-gon, & with tottys þou schalt be torn.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 497/2. Totte, supra in folte. Ibid. (MS. Winch.), Totte, fowle, supra in ff. [Ffolt idem quod folet, ffolette, ffatuellus].
a. 1660. Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archæol. Soc.), I. 278. Whoe answeared like a toute, or a maddman, as he was, that he was for the Kinge.
