tout

See also: toût

English

WOTD – 22 January 2009

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taʊt/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aʊt

Noun

Wikipedia

tout (plural touts)

1. Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
2. 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

• barker
• pitchman
• spruiker

Derived terms

• ticket tout

Translations

someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way

• French: racoleur (fr) m, vendeur ambulant m, rabatteur (fr) m, pronostiqueur (fr) m
• German: (US) Drogenvermittler m, (US) Drogenvermittlerin f, (UK) Kartenschwarzhändler m, (UK) Kartenschwarzhändlerin f, Schlepperin f

• Indonesian: calo (id)
• Italian: strillone (it) m, imbonitore m
• Swedish: biljettförsäljare (illegal), kundvärvare
• Turkish: arsız satıcı, çığırtkan (tr), karaborsacı (tr), tahminci (tr)

Verb

tout (third-person singular simple present touts, present participle touting, simple past and past participle touted)

1. (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.

2. 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.

Synonyms

• pimp
• pitch
• promote
• spruik

Translations

To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote

• Finnish: kehua (fi), ylistää (fi), mainostaa (fi)
• French: racoler (fr)
• German: aufdringlich ankündigen (de), werben (de) für
• Indonesian: menawari, menawarkan, membujuk
• Italian: pubblicizzare (it), propagandare (it)
• Romanian: racola (ro)

• Russian: навязывать (ru) (navjazyvatʹ), расхваливать (ru) (rasxvalivatʹ)
• Spanish: presumir (es)
• Swedish: pracka (på ngn en vara)
• Turkish: çığırtkanlık etmek (tr), müşteri toplamak (tr), tiyo vermek (tr)
• Vietnamese: công bố (vi)

See also

• tout court

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French

Etymology

From Old French tot, from Latin totus; compare Catalan tot, Italian tutto, Portuguese todo, Romanian tot, Spanish todo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu/

• audio

  (file)

Adjective

tout m (feminine toute, masculine plural tous, feminine plural toutes)

1. all

Derived terms

• tout le monde

Adverb

tout

1. all

Pronoun

tout

1. everything

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Guernésiais

Etymology

From Old French tot, from Latin tōtus.

Adjective

tout m (feminine toute, masculine plural touts, feminine plural toutes)

1. all

Adverb

tout

1. all

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French tout (“all”).

Adjective

tout

1. all

Adverb

tout

1. all

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Jèrriais

Etymology

From Old French tot, from Latin tōtus.

Adjective

tout m (feminine toute, masculine plural touts, feminine plural toutes)

1. all

Derived terms

Derived terms

èrtithe-tout (“lumber-room”) homme à tout faithe (“jack of all trades”) laîsse-tout-faithe (“neglectful person”)

tout à ièrs (“all eyes”) tout-s'mêle (“busybody”) toute-êpice (“allspice”)

Adverb

tout

1. all