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Tout vs Peddle - What's the difference?

tout | peddle |

As verbs the difference between tout and peddle

is that tout is to flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote while peddle is to sell things, especially door to door.

As a noun tout

is someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.

tout

English

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.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , 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 .}}

    Synonyms

    * barker * pitchman * spruiker

    Derived terms

    * ticket tout

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.
  • :
  • *2012 , Scott Tobias, The Hunger Games , The A.V. Club
  • *:For the 75 years since a district rebellion was put down, The Games have existed as an assertion of the Capital’s power, a winner-take-all contest that touts heroism and sacrifice—participants are called “tributes”— while pitting the districts against each other.
  • To look upon or watch.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), X, lvi:
  • *:Nor durst Orcanes view the Soldan's face, / But still upon the floor did pore and tout .

    • Synonyms

    * pimp * pitch * promote * spruik

    See also

    * tout court ----

    peddle

    English

    Verb

    (peddl)
  • To sell things, especially door to door.
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
  • To sell illegal narcotics.
  • (derogatory, figuratively) To spread or cause to spread.
  • * 2009 , Michael John Beashel, Unshackled (page 166)
    • Christine walked a dangerous line, peddling gossip about her detested son-in-law.
  • * 2012 , Niamh O'Connor, Taken (page 166)
    • Roberts was a drug dealer, nicknamed 'King Krud', who peddled death and misery.
  • * '>citation

    • Related terms

    * peddler * peddling