tout
English
Etymology 1
From a dialectal form of toot (“to stick out; project; peer out; peep”), itself from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English toten, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English tōtian (“to peep out; look; pry; spectate”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taʊt/
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Audio (US): (file) Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -aʊt
Noun
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, in 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.
- (colloquial, archaic) A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.
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Verb
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.
- 2016 January 25, "Why Arabs would regret a toothless Chinese dragon," The National (retrieved 25 January 2016):
- China has touted its policy of non-interference for decades.
- 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.
- 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[2], page 9:
- Newspaper articles also were generally positive in tone, although a tendency towards sensationalism means that the spread of hybrid forms is occasionally touted as the universal language of the future.
- 2016 January 25, "Why Arabs would regret a toothless Chinese dragon," The National (retrieved 25 January 2016):
- (obsolete) 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:
- (UK, slang, horse-racing, transitive) To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.).
- (US, slang, horse-racing, transitive) To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings.
- (UK, slang, horse-racing, intransitive) To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.
- (US, slang, horse-racing, intransitive) To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.
- (intransitive) To look for, try to obtain; used with for.
- To understand the new London, I lived it. I slept rough with Roma beggars and touted for work with Baltic laborers on the kerb. (Ben Judah on BBC Business Daily, March 1, 2016)
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Etymology 2
Probably from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French tout (“all”).
Noun
tout
See also
French
Etymology
From Middle French tout, from Old French tot, from Latin tōtus; compare Catalan tot, Italian tutto, Portuguese todo, Romanian tot, Spanish todo.
Pronunciation
Adjective
tout (feminine toute, masculine plural tous, feminine plural toutes)
Pronoun
tout (plural tous)
Derived terms
Adverb
tout
Further reading
- “tout”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French tout (“all”).
Adjective
tout
Adverb
tout
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French tot.
Adjective
tout m (feminine singular toute, masculine plural tous, feminine plural toutes)
- all; all of
- toute la nuit
- all (of the) night
Adverb
tout (feminine singular toute, masculine plural tous, feminine plural toutes)
- all (intensifier)
- 1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 45:
- Et moult y avoit de gens tout autour pour regarder la iustice de la damoiselle
- And there were many people all around to watch the justice afforded to the lady
- completely; totally; entirely
Usage notes
- Like Modern French tout, when used as an intensifier it may inflect according to the gender and the number of what it is describing:
- Elle est toute morte ― she is completely dead
- The uninflected form tout is always used for describing terms that don't inflect with gender, such as verbs, adverbs and prepositions:
- y avoit de gens tout autour ― there were people all around (tout qualifies the preposition autour)
Descendants
- French: tout
Norman
Etymology
From Old French tot, from Latin tōtus.
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey): (file)
Adjective
tout m
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
Scots
Verb
tout
- (intransitive) To pout.
Noun
tout (plural touts)
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