tootsoon

English

Etymology

A corruption of Italian tizzone.

Noun

tootsoon (plural tootsoons)

  1. (US, ethnic slur) A black person.
    • 1977, Omar Fletcher, Black Godfather, page 5:
      “ Eenie, meenie, minie, moe, catch a tutsoon by the toe,” he sang loudly.
    • 1993, Nick Vasile, A Member of the Family:
      "A business acquaintance. I use his company as a source of capital for some of my deals. I used them last year to refinance a nuts-and-bolts company for a coupla blacks doin' work for the Navy. […] They were so grateful they made me their controller. Who can figure tootsoons?"
    • 1993, Alan Bowne, A Snake in the Vein, page 24:
      (Gesturing offstage) You are gonna tap one of these tootsoons and get me a disposable.
    • 2019, Albertus Revo Pramudya, The Impacts of Don Shirley's Influence Towards Tony Lip's Personality Development in Farrelly's Green Book Script (Undergraduate Thesis, Universitas Sanata Dharma Yogyakarta):
      The interaction is as follows: LOUIE: Hey, Lip, tell us about the trip. RUDY: Yeah. So how was he, the tootsune. He gets on your nerves?
Related terms

ditsoon

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