Touted vs Mooted - What's the difference?
touted | mooted |
(tout)
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 .
As verbs the difference between touted and mooted
is that touted is (tout) while mooted is (moot).As an adjective mooted is
made, or proven to be, moot.touted
English
Verb
(head)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 .}}