Tout vs Purport - What's the difference?
tout | purport |
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 (label) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.
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*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 .
To convey, imply, or profess outwardly (often falsely).
To intend.
import, intention or purpose
* 1748 ,
* 1843 , '', book 4, chapter I, ''Aristocracies
* 1939 ,
(obsolete) disguise; covering
* Spenser
As verbs the difference between tout and purport
is that tout is while purport is to convey, imply, or profess outwardly (often falsely).As a noun purport is
import, intention or purpose.tout
English
Noun
(wikipedia tout) (en noun)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 * spruikerDerived terms
* ticket toutVerb
(en verb)Synonyms
* pimp * pitch * promote * spruikSee also
* tout court ----purport
English
Verb
(en verb)- He purports himself to be an international man of affairs.
- He purported to become an international man of affairs.
Noun
(en noun)- My practice, you say, refutes my doubts. But you mistake the purport of my question.
- Sorrowful, phantasmal as this same Double Aristocracy of Teachers and Governors now looks, it is worth all men’s while to know that the purport of it is, and remains, noble and most real.
- A child’s brain starts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infant convolutions, thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put a mystic possibility for noticing an adult’s act, and figuring out its purport .
- For she her sex under that strange purport / Did use to hide.