Also tottie, totie. Affectionate diminutive of TOT sb.4; a tiny tot or little child. Also as adj. Tiny, wee. Hence Tottykins = TODDLEKINS.
1821. Galt, Sir A. Wylie, III. xxxiii. 287. I would be blithe to see the wee totties spinning about the floor like peeries.
1849. J. Milne, Lett., in Bonar, Life, ix. (1868), 129. There is not a day that I don’t think of our poor little totty. Ibid., 128. Bonnie wee totikins, Bricht as a bee.
1906. A. McCormick, Tinkler Gipsies Galloway, ii. 89. The fairies,—totie wee bodies a’ cled in red.
