tootsie

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tootsie
Noun
  • This list has no mention of the newspaper home delivery guy or gal, someone who regularly receives a tip from our family.
    Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The rubber sole is also important for clumsy gals like myself.
    Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • When Ali’s mistress appeared at a state reception in Manila, Ali’s wife, Khalilah, flew to the Philippines in a fury.
    Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
  • But in Vienna, Pollak kept a mistress, and Milena had to take a job porting valises at the train station just to make ends meet.
    Christine Estima September 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Unlike the Panthère—crowned the it girl watch of the 2020s—or the Tank Française, with its royal pedigree, the Demoiselle remained overlooked.
    Malaika Crawford, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The track is credited to fictional girl group Huntr/x, as well as the three women who actually perform as the characters in the movie, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The owner of the brothel promised to find the brunette Englishwoman Henry’s been looking for, and the lass has been found!
    Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • My boy retriever is just as dramatic.
    Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • That's how Casey Kacz, an Event Coordinator for a non-profit and father of two young boys, felt when his car battery died.
    Kendall Malinchock, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Epstein made an unmonitored call, thought to be to his girlfriend at the time, shortly before his death, which Barr acknowledged was a violation of procedures.
    Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Brilliant chef Roxie has an ex-girlfriend in one scene.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 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
  • Drescher played Fran Frine and Shaughnessy played her onscreen boss-turned-beau, Maxwell Sheffield.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2025
  • From the outside, Laura could be loving, protective, overbearing, even intrusive — while Cherry sows doubt for hiding pieces of her past despite ostensibly adoring her new beau.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Tootsie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tootsie. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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