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tutting

Variant of tut

interjection, noun

(a sound) used to express impatience, annoyance, mild rebuke, etc.: a click, or sucking sound, made by touching the tongue to the hard palate and rapidly withdrawing it: usually repeated one or more times (): often jocular when pronounced as written

intransitive verb tutted, tutting

to utter this sound

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