tootsies

noun

plural of tootsie
as in gals

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tootsies
  1. gals
  2. lasses
  3. girlfriends
  4. mistresses
  5. girls
  6. boys
  7. boyfriends
  8. lovers
Noun
  • Just like the guys, the gals danced to a top-charting song from the year they were born.
    — Colleen Kratofil, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The two Targaryen gals presented Sally Field with the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Remarkably Bright Creatures.
    — Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of gals
Noun
  • Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.
    — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Hear ye, hear ye, good lords and lasses!
    — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 22 Oct. 2025
Definition of lasses
Noun
  • The resulting photographs often remind me of Dorothea Lange’s, if Dorothea Lange were a teen girl on Tumblr doing a photo shoot with her girlfriends.
    — Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Big families sit right next to groups of girlfriends and couples on date nights.
    — Jessica Jungbauer, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of girlfriends
Noun
  • Most of Jack’s mistresses did not express much concern about Jackie.
    — Laurence Leamer, Vanity Fair, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Wives and mistresses battle each other in the French court of King Henry II and in the palace of Maharaja Madho Singh II.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of mistresses
Noun
  • Beary was in Long Beach on Wednesday for the Southern Section girls’ flag football championship luncheon.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Over 1,300 women and girls work as kayayei, headcarrying dangerously heavy loads of cast-off clothing in the market.
    — Bella Webb, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of girls
Noun
  • Quimby’s grandmother made a Wally cake that both boys immediately recognized, while her grandfather contributed cookies decorated with a Red Sox jersey and logo.
    — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Little boys tossed a football back and forth along the street while parents watched, sharing food and conversations with those around them.
    — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of boys
Noun
  • And, if so, what will happen to all those chatbot boyfriends?
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026
  • People’s responses were also colored by everyone suddenly having lawyers and managers and agents, wives, husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends, friends.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of boyfriends
Noun
  • Dylan’s sneer and Mick Ronson’s guitar jab like fingers in some intense argument, trying to win the pyrrhic victory of a lovers’ quarrel.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Now comes Netflix’s spin on the romantic comedy to end all romantic comedies, starring Emma Corrin and Jack Lowden as the characters at the center of literature’s original enemies-to-lovers trope.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of lovers
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