Tout vs Rout - What's the difference?
tout | rout |
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=
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, 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 make a noise; roar; bellow; snort.
To snore; snore loudly.
To belch.
To howl as the wind; make a roaring noise.
A noise; a loud noise; a bellowing; a shouting; clamor; an uproar; disturbance; tumult.
* Sterne
* Trench
Snoring.
A violent movement; a great or violent stir; a heavy blow; a stunning blow; a stroke.
A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng.
* Spenser
A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
* Milton
* 1663 ,
* 1928 , H. P. Lovecraft, "", Weird Tales , Vol. 11, No. 2, pages 159–178, 287:
The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army.
* Daniel
* Alexander Pope
(legal) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof.
A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.
* Landor
To defeat completely, forcing into disorderly retreat.
* Clarendon
* 2009 January 30, Adam Entous, "
(obsolete) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.
* (rfdate)
To search or root in the ground, as a swine.
To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.
To use a router in woodworking.
As verbs the difference between tout and rout
is that tout is while rout is to make a noise; roar; bellow; snort or rout can be to beat; strike; assail with blows or rout can be to defeat completely, forcing into disorderly retreat or rout can be to search or root in the ground, as a swine.As a noun rout is
a noise; a loud noise; a bellowing; a shouting; clamor; an uproar; disturbance; tumult or rout can be a violent movement; a great or violent stir; a heavy blow; a stunning blow; a stroke or rout can be a troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng.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 ----rout
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) routen, ruten, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- (Chaucer)
Derived terms
* (cheer)Noun
(en noun)- This new book the whole world makes such a rout about.
- "My child, it is not well," I said, / "Among the graves to shout; / To laugh and play among the dead, / And make this noisy rout ."
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at rush.Derived terms
* atroutNoun
(en noun)Etymology 3
1598, "disorderly retreat," from (etyl) route'' "disorderly flight of troops," literally "a breaking off, rupture," from ''rupta'' "a dispersed group," literally "a broken group," from (etyl) ''rupta'', feminine past participle of ''rumpere "to break" (see rupture). The verb is from 1600.Noun
(en noun)- A rout of people there assembled were.
- the endless routs of wretched thralls
- the ringleader and head of all this rout
- Nor do I name of men the common rout .
- When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded / With long-ear'd rout , to battle sounded, / And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, / Was beat with fist, instead of a stick;
- although there must have been nearly a hundred mongrel celebrants in the throng, the police relied on their firearms and plunged determinedly into the nauseous rout .
- The rout of the enemy was complete.
- Thy army / Dispersed in rout , betook them all to fly.
- To these glad conquest, murderous rout to those.
- (Wharton)
- at routs and dances
Derived terms
* routous, routouslyVerb
(en verb)- That party that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fled.
Mitchell warns of setbacks ahead in Mideast talks" (news article), Reuters:
- Israel tightened its blockade of the Gaza Strip after Hamas routed secular Fatah forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and seized control of the enclave in June 2007.
- In all that land no Christian durste route .
- (Francis Bacon)
Etymology 4
Alteration of root.Verb
(en verb)- (Edwards)