Anglo-Ind. [Tamil and Canarese toṭi.] A man of a low caste employed as messenger and odd man of a South Indian village. Also totyman.
1800. in Gurw., Wellington’s Suppl. Desp. (1858), I. 452. Washerman, barber, and totyman.
1886. Yule & Burnell, Hobson-Jobson, Toty.
