tout
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English [edit]
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Noun [edit]
- Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
- A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, The Hocussing of Cigarette[1]:
- No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, The Hocussing of Cigarette[1]:
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someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way
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Verb [edit]
tout (third-person singular simple present touts, present participle touting, simple past and past participle touted)
- (transitive) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.
- They are touting their PowerSpheres, but I don't know how well those really work.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[2]
- For the 75 years since a district rebellion was put down, The Games have existed as an assertion of the Capital’s power, a winner-take-all contest that touts heroism and sacrifice—participants are called “tributes”— while pitting the districts against each other.
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To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote
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French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French tot, from Latin totus; compare Catalan tot, Italian tutto, Portuguese todo, Romanian tot, Spanish todo.
Pronunciation [edit]
Adjective [edit]
tout m (feminine toute, masculine plural touts, feminine plural toutes)
Adverb [edit]
tout
Pronoun [edit]
tout
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Guernésiais [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French tot, from Latin tōtus.
Adjective [edit]
tout m (feminine toute, masculine plural touts, feminine plural toutes)
Adverb [edit]
tout
Haitian Creole [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From French tout (“all”)
Adjective [edit]
tout
Adverb [edit]
tout
Jèrriais [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French tot, from Latin tōtus.
Adjective [edit]
tout m (feminine toute, masculine plural touts, feminine plural toutes)
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Derived terms
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