tout

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Rire-pour-tout, as the army knows, somehow or other, generally potted his man every day, and he missed it terribly.

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  1. intransitive verb To solicit customers, votes, or patronage, especially in a brazen way.
  2. intransitive verb To obtain and deal in information on racehorses.
  3. transitive verb To solicit or importune: street vendors who were touting pedestrians.
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  • On s'accoutume a tout, they say, but I know and feel very sensibly that there are exceptions to that adage. —  George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
  • Je rename a tout cela; les inconveniens en sont innombrables; all my play at present is confined to a rubber at whist, and a little Pharo with Ailsford, and perhaps two or three more. —  George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
  • Euphemisms for currency depreciations started with the original promoters of the Fed and the tout was that a —  The Big Picture
  • If you look at the latest HP servers as an example, one of the features they tout is their use of EPEAT GOLD (92\%+ efficient) power supplies. —  reddit.com: what's new online!
  • The "advanced technology" that greenies continuously tout will be a wonderful thing as it proves itself. —  Popular Science
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ce ·  fait ·  encore ·  comme ·  aussi ·  quelque ·  donc ·  par ·  cette ·  quand ·  elle ·  cet

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tout:   touting ·  touted ·  touts
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English tuten, to peer.

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  1. A dial. form, in particular uses, of toot.
  2. from tout, v.
  3. from Middle English toute; cf. tout, toot, v., in sense ‘project.’
  4. apparently a particular Scots use of tout, toot, in literally sense ‘project’: see toot.
 

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