Definition: grandmother; wise, old woman
Used In A Sentence: No can. I goin’ take tutu shopping today.
In English?: Unfortunately, I won’t be able to join you guys today. I’m going to take my gradmother shopping.
It’s also a term of endearment for an older sister or aunt, not every tutu is a grandmother.
If the kenyan wrote home to say he was married to a woman named Annie Tutu, she could have been an older sister in the family.
What-ever. They went to so much trouble to turn Stanley Ann Dunham into Ann S Obama and Anna Obama and her mother into Toot that we don’t know a toot from a tutu or an annie from an anna - and that’s the way they like it.