intj. (colloquial).—TUSH (q.v.). PISH (q.v.). Also TUTS! and as verb. TO MAKE TUTS FOR = to make light of.

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  c. 1500.  DUNBAR, Works (PATERSON), 97 [T. L. KINGTON-OLIPHANT, The New English, i. 363. The new interjection TUT is seen].

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  1597.  SHAKESPEARE, Richard II., ii. 3. 87.

          York.  TUT, TUT!
Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.

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  1605.  JONSON, Volpone, or the Fox, ii. 3. TUT, I am confident in thee, thou shalt see’t.

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  1657.  J. BRADFORD, Sermon on Repentance [Parker Society (1853), v. 63]. O hard hearts that we have, which MAKE TUTS for sin!

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  1849.  BULWER-LYTTON, The Caxtons, VIII. iii. In another moment the member of Parliament had forgotten the statist, and was pishing and TUTTING over the Globe or the Sun.

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  A TUT FOR A TUSH, phr. (old).—A TIT FOR TAT (q.v.); see TUSH.

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