Tut-tut (tsk! tsk!) in the classics ?

[Hen Hanna]

If you know of an occurrence of Tut-tut (tsk, tsk!)
in classical Latin, Greek ... text,
could you let me know ?

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Tut-tutting (tsk! tsk!) is perh. a human universal.
(predates language?)

It sounds nothing like [tut tut] ....
What is going on?


>>> The tut-tut! (British spelling, "tutting") or tsk! tsk! (American spelling, "tsking") sound used to express disapproval or pity is a dental click, although it is not a speech sound (phoneme) in that context.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tsk

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tut_tut

## Russian: ай-ай-а́й (ru) ‎(aj-aj-áj), ай-яй-я́й (ru) ‎(aj-jaj-jáj)

## Scottish Gaelic: ud, ud


HH

[Ed Cryer]

I can't find anything in Greek or Latin writers.
The most likely places would be surviving social comedy plays
(Aristophanes, Plautus, Terence), but I've not found anything like tut
or tsk. Nor in the dictionaries I've looked in.
In Greek "t' " was frequent, but elided from tu, toi, and te.
In Latin "T" was short for "Titus".

Ed