Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the sound of casual playing on a musical instrument;
- Example: "he enjoyed hearing the tootles of their horns as the musicians warmed up"VERB (1)
1.
play (a musical instrument) casually;
- Example: "the saxophone player was tootling a sad melody"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tootle \Too"tle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tootled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tootling.] [Freq. of toot.]
To toot gently, repeatedly, or continuously, on a wind
instrument, as a flute; also, to make a similar noise by any
means. "The tootling robin." --John Clare.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tootle
n 1: the sound of casual playing on a musical instrument; "he
enjoyed hearing the tootles of their horns as the musicians
warmed up"
v 1: play (a musical instrument) casually; "the saxophone player
was tootling a sad melody"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "tootle":
bagpipe, bay, beep, bell, blare, blast, blat, blow, blow a horn,
blow the horn, bray, bugle, carillon, clarion, doodle,
double-tongue, fanfare, fife, flourish of trumpets, flute, honk,
lip, peal, pipe, shriek, sound, sound a tattoo, sound taps, squeal,
tantara, tantarara, taps, tarantara, tattoo, tongue, toot,
triple-tongue, trumpet, trumpet blast, trumpet call, tweedle,
whistle, wind, wind the horn