tootsie

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tootsie
Noun
  • Don’t be frightened, though, fans; The Parent Trap gal is still in the competition!
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Get these gals to Lake Tahoe or something.
    Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • His character, federal agent Nelson Van Alden, fathered two different children with two different mistresses.
    Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Both his wife and his mistress think the world of him at the end of the book, for example.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Both boys and girls soccer have won state titles, with the former already claiming two and in the running for a third this fall.
    Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Each year, the parade organization invites all military, veteran and civic organizations, as well as many universities, high schools, junior high schools, youth groups throughout the Treasure Valley and encourage marching bands, floats, boys and girl scout units to participate.
    Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Hear ye, hear ye, good lords and lasses!
    Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The hotel is made entirely out of ice and snow, and drinks are served out of ice lasses.
    Jason Mastrodonato, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • No army in history seemed ever to have been more ragged and motley and mongrel and polyglot than the Continental, rich and poor, learned and illiterate, from boys to old men, skilled and unskilled, born all over the world, speaking dozens of languages, believing in different gods and in no god.
    Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Gordon's wife Tana Ramsay also shared a post in honor of Jesse's big day, including more photos of the birthday boy.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The poet Rodolfo becomes recovering drug addict Roger, an HIV-positive rock musician whose girlfriend has died.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Anthropologie The Bistro Tile Stoneware Mug With its monogram and chic Parisian design, this mug is an easy, personalized gift for everyone—bosses, girlfriends, and moms alike.
    Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 11 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Sebastian’s inamorata, Ellie (Leslie Bibb), is the only daughter of hotel magnate William Collins XII (David Rasche) and his US senator wife, Tigger (Kim Cattrall); and, yes, Tigger is her government name.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
  • The idyllic scenery also represents the happy ending that Yadra’s lesbian daughter, Zelia, wants to imagine about what happened to her great aunt Nena, who chose to stay behind in Cuba to be with her married inamorata, Antonia.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2021
Noun
  • However, since then, the reality star has continued to show off her beau.
    Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Her complicated grief deepens a rift with her teenage daughter Clara (Grace), whose college dreams and new beau (Thames) Morgan does not approve of.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Tootsie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tootsie. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.

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