Noun

(wikipedia tout) (en noun)

Someone advertising]] for [[customer, customers in an aggressive way.

*1886 , , 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.'

A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.

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, title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=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 .}}

Noun

(en noun)

(pathology, not countable) An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.

(usually, followed by of) A spurt or splotch.

* , Macbeth , act 2, scene 1:

I see thee still,

And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood.

* 1981 , , Children of Men , ch. 20, page 137:

[S]mall chunks of rubble and gouts of soot had fallen from the chimney, and were ground into the rug under his unwary feet.

* 2002 , , The Shadow of the Lion , (Google preview):

Another blow sent gouts of blood flying, along with gobbets of flesh.

(rare) A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989)