a. rare. Now Sc. dial. Also 6 Sc. tute-mowitt, 9 tuit-moot. [f. tute, TOOT v.1 to protrude, stick out + MOUTH sb. + -ED2. Cf. older Flem. tuyt-muyl ‘broncus, brochus’ (Kilian).] Having protruding lips; also, having a projecting under jaw. So Tut-mouth (Sc. tuit mow).
α. 1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, liv. 6. Quhou fain wald I descrywe perfytt, My ladye with the mekle lippis. Quhou scho is tute mowitt lyk an aip.
a. 1585. Polwart, Flyting w. Montgomerie, 755 (Harl. MS.). Tout mowe [v.rr. tait, tuit mow, cruik mow] woodie sow, sone bowe, or I wand thee.
1893. W. Gregor, in Dunbar’s Poems (S.T.S.). III. 286. Tute mowitt … still in use in parts of the North as a word of contempt, as, ‘He’s a tuit-moot smatchit.’
β. 1538. Elyot, Bronchi, they whyche haue their mouthe and tethe standyng farre out, tut mouthed.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XI. xxxvii. I. 336. The Lips: some men there be that put them far out, by reason that they are gag-toothed or tut-mouthed.
1616. Bullokar, Eng. Exp., Tutmouthed, he that hath the chin and nether iaw sticking out farther than the vpper.
