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Tout (pronounce towt)

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To ply or seek for customers. “A touter” is one who touts. (From Tooting, where persons on their way to the court held at Epsom were pestered by “touts.”

“A century or two ago, when the court took up its quarters at Epsom … [many of] the inhabitants used to station themselves at the point where the roads fork off to Epsom by Tooting and Merton, and ‘toutʹ the travellers to pass through Tooting. It become a common expression for carriage-folk to say, ‘The Toots are on us again.ʹ”—Walford: Greater London, vol. ii. p. 530.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Touch and Go (A)
Touchet
Touchstones
Touchy
Tour
Tour de Force
Tourlourou
Tournament or Tournay
Tournemine
Tours
Tout (pronounce towt)
Tout Ensemble (French)
Tout est Perdu Hormis LHonneur
Tout le Monde
Tower of Hunger
Tower of London
Towers of Silence
Town (A)
Town and Gown Row (A)
Toyshop of Europe (The)
Tracing of a Fortress (The)