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tout otut tuot utot outt uott totu ottu ttou ttou ottu totu tuto utto ttuo ttuo utto tuto outt uott otut tout utot tuot

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Definitions and meaning of tout

tout

Etymology 1

From a dialectal form of toot (“to stick out; project; peer out; peep”), itself from Middle English toten, totien, from Old English tōtian (“to peep out; look; pry; spectate”). Merged with Middle English touten (“to jut out, protrude, gaze upon, observe, peer”), from Old English *tūtian, related to Old English tȳtan (“to stand out, be conspicuous, shine”). Compare Icelandic túta (“a teat-like prominence”), tútna (“to be blown up”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taʊt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /tʌʊt/
• Rhymes: -aʊt

Noun

tout (plural touts)

1. Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.

   Synonyms: barker, pitchman, (Australia) spruiker
2. A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
3. (colloquial) An informer in the Irish Republican Army.
4. (colloquial, archaic) A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.

Derived terms

• ticket tout

Translations

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.
2. (UK, slang, horse-racing, transitive) To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.).
3. (US, slang, horse-racing, transitive) To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings.
4. (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.
5. (US, slang, horse-racing, intransitive) To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.
6. (intransitive) To look for, try to obtain; used with for.
   • March 1, 2016, Ben Judah on BBC Business Daily:

     To understand the new London, I lived it. I slept rough with Roma beggars and touted for work with Baltic laborers on the kerb.

7. (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.

Synonyms

• pimp
• pitch
• promote
• spruik

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from French tout (“all”).

Noun

tout

1. (card games) In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.

See also

• tout court
• mangetout
• tout ensemble

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French tout, from Old French tot, from Vulgar Latin tōttus, alteration (likely via expressive gemination) of Latin tōtus. Compare Catalan tot, Italian tutto, Portuguese todo, Romanian tot, Spanish todo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu/, (in liaison) /tu.t‿/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /tʊt/

Adverb

tout m (feminine toute or tout, feminine plural toutes or tout)

1. all
2. totally; completely
3. (tout + adjective + que + subjunctive clause) however; no matter how

Usage notes

When modifying a feminine adjective, the form tout is used preceding a vowel or muted H, or otherwise changes to agree with the adjective. When modifying a verb, tout is invariant.

Derived terms

Determiner

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

1. all

Derived terms

Noun

tout m (plural touts)

1. whole, entirety, total

   le tout ― everything, all of it

Derived terms

Pronoun

tout (plural tous)

1. everything

Derived terms

• en avant toute
• à toute
• tout ça ne nous rendra pas le Congo

Further reading

• “tout”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French tout (“all”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tut/

Adjective

tout

1. all

Adverb

tout

1. all
2. every

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French tot.

Adjective

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

1. all; all of

Adverb

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

1. all (intensifier)
2. 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

Adjective

tout m

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) all

Derived terms

Adverb

tout

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) all

Scots

Verb

tout

1. (intransitive) To pout.

Noun

tout (plural touts)

1. A fit of sulking; a pet.
2. A sudden illness.

Derived terms

• toutie