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▪ I. ‖ toco1 Ornith.|ˈtəʊkə|
[Native name in Guyana; also in F. le toco (Buffon Ois. VII. 185).]
The typical species of toucan, Rhamphastos toco, a native of Guyana.
1781Latham Synopsis I. 325 The Toco. The length of this bird is nine or ten inches from the head to the end of the tail... Inhabits Cayenne. Ibid. 323 Genus VI. Toucan. No. 1. The Toco. 1902P. Fountain Gt. Mts. & Forests S. Amer. vi. 159 The native name of these birds is toco.
▪ II. toco2 slang.|ˈtəʊkəʊ|
Also toko.
[ad. Hindi ṭhōko, imp. of ṭhoknā beat, thrash.]
Chastisement, corporal punishment. Also fig. and in phr. to get toco for yam.
1823‘J. Bee’ Slang s.v., Yams are food for negroes in the West-Indies,..and if, instead of receiving his proper ration of these, Blackee gets a whip (toco) about his back, why ‘he has caught toco’ instead of yam. 1848J. R. Planché Theseus & Ariadne (1859) i. ii. 14 Toco from my father I instead of yam shall get. 1857Hughes Tom Brown i. v, The School leaders come up furious and administer toco to the wretched fags nearest at hand. 1885W. S. Gilbert Mikado i. 16 To embrace you thus, con fuoco, Would distinctly be no gioco, And for yam I should get toco. 1903J. Coleman C. Reade ii. ii. (1904) 274 They both caught ‘Toko’ when they went back. 1910Kipling Let. in Ld. Birkenhead R. Kipling (1978) xvi. 252 The Teuton..prepares to give us toko when he feels good and ready. 1921[see Bolshy, Bolshie]. 1941J. Cary Herself Surprised lviii. 143 You'd better tell people how I took your trousers down last time and gave you toko. |