tout
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
See also: toût
Contents
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tout (plural touts)
- Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
- 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima.
- Paul Muniment looked at his young friend a moment. 'Do you want to know what he is? He's a tout.'
- 'A tout? What do you mean?'
- 'Well, a cat's-paw, if you like better.'
- Hyacinth stared. 'For whom, pray?'
- 'Or a fisherman, if you like better still. I give you your choice of comparisons. I made them up as we came along in the hansom. He throws his nets and hauls in the little fishes—the pretty little shining, wriggling fishes. They are all for her; she swallows, 'em down.'
- 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima.
- 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.
-
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way
|
|
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.
- 2012, Scott Tobias, The Hunger Games, The A.V. Club
- 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.
- To look upon or watch.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, lvi:
- Nor durst Orcanes view the Soldan's face, / But still upon the floor did pore and tout.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, lvi:
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote
|
|
See also[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French tot, from Latin totus; compare Catalan tot, Italian tutto, Portuguese todo, Romanian tot, Spanish todo.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
tout
Pronoun[edit]
tout
External links[edit]
- “tout” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Haitian Creole[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
tout
Adverb[edit]
tout
Norman[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French tot, from Latin tōtus.
Pronunciation[edit]
-
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Adjective[edit]
tout m (f toute, m plural touts, f plural toutes)
- (Jersey, Guernsey) all
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
|
|
|
Adverb[edit]
tout
- (Jersey, Guernsey) all
Categories:
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French adverbs
- French pronouns
- Haitian Creole terms derived from French
- Haitian Creole lemmas
- Haitian Creole adjectives
- Haitian Creole adverbs
- Norman terms derived from Old French
- Norman terms derived from Latin
- Norman terms with audio links
- Norman lemmas
- Norman adjectives
- Jersey Norman
- Guernsey Norman
- Norman adverbs
