I've never seen the word tut used like this before, solo. I've only known it as the exclamation Tut-tut. Later in the book, one of the characters says " Tt-tt! " as an exclamation. Kipps was written in 1905 and is a comic novel. I've been distracted by other reading and so am just finishing it tonight.Glad I discovered so many titles by H.G. Wells. A few of the light novels are on my to read someday i hope list.
This Tut-tutting reminds me of one of my favorite ice cream flavors. Tutti Frutti (which generally means all fruits to the Italian ice cream maker.) Tutti Frutti is similar to my other favorite ice cream flavor Spumoni. If done correctly, spumoni is tutti frutti with chocolate, pistachio and whipped cream within the ice cream. It's the foamy whipped cream that gives Spumoni its name (spume = froth or foam.) Both come from old Italian dessert items that were served with liqueurs, biscotti, and/or ice cream.
4 comments:
Nope! I Never Came Across "TuT" Before!I Will report Anymore Sightings!
Who knew?
Well, this is interesting to me for several reasons. I'm always curious about English word usage, especially the way things shift (spelling included) over time. Of course there are many details unique to British and North American English, too. "Tut" in this context is new to me, too. And so is the spelling tt-tt. I would have spelled that "Tsk-tsk."
Thanks for the backstory on spumoni. Really good spumoni is probably my favorite flavor, too, although even bad spumoni...what can I say - ice cream is my drug of choice. The really strange thing is that I recently moved to a town that has an extremely high Italian-heritage population, and I've yet to see any spumoni. Lots of gelato in the summer, but no foamy ice cream!
Maybe I should change my name to tsk-tsk . . .
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