Also Totty. With capital T: Familiar diminutive of HOTTENTOT.
1849. E. E. Napier, Excurs. S. Africa, I. 55. To portray … the Hottentot of the time of Van Riebeck, and the ‘Totty’ of the present day.
1863. W. C. Baldwin, Afr. Hunting, ix. 366. I have … five horses, six Kaffirs, and one Tottie, and have every comfort in my wagons.
1883. Gd. News in Africa, viii. 110. The Hottentots are a miserable little race, sometimes called ‘Totties’ in contempt.
