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Touted vs Trumped - What's the difference?

touted | trumped |

As verbs the difference between touted and trumped

is that touted is past tense of tout while trumped is past tense of trump.

touted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (tout)

    • 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 ----

    trumped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (trump)

    • trump

    English

    Etymology 1

    Possibly from Italian trionfi (triumph(s) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, in the singular, cards) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
  • (British, in the plural, cards) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
    • Diamonds were declared trumps .
  • (cards) A playing card of that suit.
    • He played an even higher trump .
  • (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
  • An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
  • * 1851 ,
    • All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump ; the captain begged his pardon.
  • * Thackeray
    • Alfred is a trump , I think you say.
  • An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
    • (Decker)
  • (in the plural) The major arcana of the tarot
  • A card of the major arcana

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (cards) To play a trump (on a card of another suit).
    • He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped .
  • (cards) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump
  • To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • to trick or trump mankind
  • (dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
  • * C. Leslie
    • Authors have been trumped upon us.
  • To supersede.
    • In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.
    Synonyms
    * (To play a trump card on another suit) ruff * (To get the better of a competitor) outsmart
    Coordinate terms
    * (To play a trump card on another suit) underruff, overruff
    Derived terms
    * the last trump * no trump * overtrump * trump card * trump out * trump up * under trump

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) trompe "trumpet" from (etyl) trompe "horn, trump, trumpet", from (etyl) * "trumpet". Akin to (etyl) trumpa, trumba "horn, trumpet", (etyl) tromme "drum", (etyl) trumme "drum". More at (l), (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A trumpet.
  • * Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:52
    • In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To blow a trumpet.
  • (intransitive, slang, UK) To flatulate.
    • And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.

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