tootik

Updated: May 1, 2025

"What care I whether you call it mad tooth or tootik?" cried Ippegoo petulantly. "It is horrible! dreadful! awful! like fire and fury in the heart." The sufferer used one or two more Eskimo expressions, suggestive of excruciating agony, which are not translatable into English.

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - Red Rooney: The Last of the Crew