tooling

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Upstairs, Zella Powers, 85, worked on one of the library’s public computers, just reading the news, tootling around, one of a few dozen people a day who come to use the library’s internet.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2023

"They're more than happy for him to be tootling along behind them in his chair."

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2023

Angela Lansbury is a tweedy country eccentric in wartime England, tootling around on a bronchitic sidecar motorbike and receiving mysterious parcels from a professor in London.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2022

Its final stretch, tootling and pounding over an insistent drone, may be a deathbed revelation, as Murphy belts, “Go into the light!”

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2022

He looked at the merry-go-round tootling behind me.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli