quasi past participle from Toot.The cattle are tooted, sc. poisoned by the Toot.
1863. G. Butler, `Canterbury Settlement,' p. 98:
«As, then, my bullocks could not get tuted.»
1891. T. H. Potts, `New Zealand Country Journal,' p. 201:
«His hearty salutation in its faultiness proved to be about ona par with `rummy-rum,' `triddy' and `toot.' The last wordreminds me of a man near by who was even judged to be somewhatvain of his Maori accent and pronunciation. With one word hewas indeed very particular, he could not bring himself to usethat manifest corruption `toot.' With him it was ever `tutu.'He had to make rather a boggle or dodge of it when he used thecolonial made verb formed on his favourite Maori noun.»