Sc. [perh. a humorous extension of TOT sb.4; but generally associated with prec.] A little child, a wee tot.
17[?]. Cauld Kail in Aberdeen, in Aitken, Scott. Song (1874), 146. Whene’er the totums cry for meat She curses aye his ergie.
1844. A. Cochrane, in Whitelaw, Bk. Scott. Song (1875), 73/1. Our twa bits o’ totums are toddlin their lore.
1898. Westm. Gaz., 6 Oct., 3/2. The fact … that had generated so critical an eyesight in this ‘totum’ of three.
