Barker vs Touts - What's the difference?
barker | touts |
Someone or something who s.
A person employed to solicit customers by calling out to passersby, e.g. at a carnival.
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(video games) A video game mode where the action is demonstrated to entice someone to play the game.
(slang, dated) A pistol.
The spotted redshank.
A person that removes the from wood, or prepares it for use in tanning.
A machine used to remove the bark from wood.
As nouns the difference between barker and touts
is that barker is someone or something who barks while touts is plural of lang=en.As a verb touts is
third-person singular of tout.barker
English
(wikipedia barker)Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)Fantasy of navigation, passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
- (Charles Dickens)
Synonyms
* spruik * toutEtymology 2
From .Noun
(en noun)- The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the introduction of more effective tanning agents, but it lives on as a surname.
- Run these logs through the barker so we can use them as fence posts.