Definition of "tutting" [tutting]

• Present participle of tut. (verb)

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• "I caught a snigger from one of the monks who accompanied him, swiftly followed by a stern tutting from the abbot, Fra Domenico Vita, and could not help smiling to myself, in spite of the moment."
• "(This is the sort of revelation that sets off a chorus of tut-tutting from the grammar police about the miserable state of our modern schooling.)"
• "But I sense that beneath the tut-tutting is a question about what modern Chinese people are supposed to believe in at all."