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Not so long ago, Americans who tootled around foreign countries in athletic attire earned a tourist badge of dishonor.

From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2015

With the naïve joy of all these ghosts, they tootled their glittery instruments at us.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 1, 2015

After dinner on a warmish weeknight—57 degrees in Ann Arbor—a junior picked up his trumpet and tootled a bit of Glenn Miller from his window, just to relax.

From Slate • May 9, 2013

I wanted to live in a world where sideboards heaved with kedgeree at breakfast time, where you tootled off to the country pile at weekends; where someone would draw your bath.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2013

A man sat on the steps of the trading post and tootled a lively tune on a pakila, or panpipes.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer