toutn.1
/taʊt/, U.S. /taʊt/, Scottish English /tʌʊt/, Irish English /taʊt/ 1. A thieves' scout or watchman. slang.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > accomplice > who keeps watch
stand1591
tout1718
touter1844
crow1862
1718 C. Hitchin True Disc. 13 He is a pushing Toute, alias Thieves Watchman, that lies scouting in and about the City to get and bring Intelligence to the Thieves.
2. One who solicits custom; = touter n. 1.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > one who canvasses or solicits sales
barker1699
salesman's dog1699
toutera1754
townsman1843
tout1853
canvasser1865
schlepper1894
1853 Househ. Words 7 26/1 Touts and spungers to foreign hotels and on foreign visitors.
1879 G. A. Sala Paris herself Again II. xi. 163 A regular house to house visitation was made..by touts or agents of the insurers.
1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. vi. 140 Ludgate Hill, where the touts of the Fleet parsons ran up and down.
1881 T. Hughes Rugby, Tennessee 34 The hotel touts rush on you.
3. (More fully racing tout.) One who surreptitiously watches the trials of race-horses, so as to gain information for betting purposes: = touter n. 2.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > tout or tipster
touter1812
prophet1843
tipster1861
tout1864
urger1919
race-reader1926
1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Tout, in sporting phraseology..signifies an agent in the training districts, on the look-out for information as to the condition and capabilities of those horses entering for a coming race.
1887 W. Black Sabina Zembra I. vi. 80 I..don't object to seeing the touts coming about; it shows they think we have some horses worth watching.
4. The action of tout v.1; in phrase to keep (the) tout, to watch. slang.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > keep watch [verb (intransitive)] > while another acts
to keep (the) tout1819
to keep nit1883
to keep cave1906
to keep yow1942
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) To keep tout, is to look out or watch, while your pall is effecting any private purpose. A strong tout, is strict observation, or eye, upon any proceedings, or persons.
1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood III. iv. ii. 244 [They] on each other kept they tout.
5. A spy; an informer. Cf. tout v.1 2. Irish English (northern) and Scottish.
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society > communication > information > informing on or against > [noun] > informer
wrayerc1000
wrobberc1300
discoverera1400
denunciator1474
informer1503
denouncer1533
detector1541
delatora1572
sycophant1579
inquisitor1580
scout1585
finger man1596
emphanista1631
quadruplator1632
informant1645
eastee-man1681
whiddler1699
runner1724
stag1725
snitch1785
qui tam1788
squeak1795
split1819
clype1825
telegraph1825
snitcher1827
Jack Nasty1837
pigeon1847
booker1863
squealer1865
pig1874
rounder1884
sneak1886
mouse1890
finger1899
fizgig1902
screamer1902
squeaker1903
canary1912
shopper1924
narker1932
snurge1933
cheese eater1935
singer1935
tip-off1941
top-off1941
tout1959
rat fink1961
whistle-blower1970
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 189 The tell tale is..a tout, traitor, quisling, or widemouth.
1973 Times 6 June 1/5 The body of a young man..was found..shot through the head 800 yards from the southern Irish border... A label with the word ‘Tout’ written on it was attached to his neck.
1977 W. McIlvanney Laidlaw xl. 186 ‘What's his business?’ ‘Same as any tout's. Other people's.’
Draft additions 1993
b. = ticket tout n. at ticket n.1 Compounds 2.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in tickets
scalper1869
ticket-scalper1875
ticket broker1902
reventa1932
ticket tout1950
tout1959
1959 Times 30 June 5/7 (heading) Touts fined [at Wimbledon].
1977 Washington Post 29 June d5/1 ‘I've been here for 30 years and have regular customers,’ said Spence, who is what the British call a ‘tout’.
1988 New Statesman & Society 1 July 10 He will wait in a long queue at the entrance to Wimbledon, and suffer a..serious onslaught from the touts.
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toutn.2
/taʊt/, U.S. /taʊt/, Scottish English /tʌʊt/ Scottish.
1. A fit of ill humour; a transient displeasure; a pet.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [noun] > fit of
gloominga1400
terret1515
momurdotesc1540
the sullens1580
pirr1581
pet1590
snuff1592
mulligrubs1599
mumps1599
geea1605
mood1609
miff1623
tetch1623
frumps1671
strunt1721
hump1727
tiff1727
tift1751
huff1757
tig1773
tout1787
sulk1792
twita1825
fantigue1825
fuff1834
grumps1844
spell1856
the grumbles1861
grouch1895
snit1939
mardy1968
moody1969
strop1970
sull1972
cream puff1985
mard1998
1787 A. Shirrefs Jamie & Bess i. ii Were he ay sae, he then wad ay be kind, But then, anither tout may change his mind.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 312 He taks the tout at every bit lippening word.
1835 J. D. Carrick Laird of Logan (1841) 76 Leezie was..discontented, and subject to bits o' touts now and then.
2. A fit or slight bout of illness.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > bout or attack of
onfalleOE
cothec1000
bitc1175
accessc1300
attacha1400
shota1400
swalma1400
storm1540
excess?1541
accession1565
qualm1565
oncome1570
grasha1610
attachment1625
ingruence1635
turn1653
attack1665
fit1667
surprise1670
drow1727
tossa1732
irruption1732
sick1808
tout1808
whither1808
spell1856
go1867
whip1891
1808–18 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Tout, towt, an ailment of a transient kind.
1823 J. Galt Entail II. ii. 12 It's neither the t'ane nor the t'ither, but just..a bit towt that's no worth the talking o'.
1831 S. E. Ferrier Destiny III. xii. 122 The baby had a sad towt with its teeth.
1855 J. Lumsden Rural Rhymes 219 (E.D.D.) She teuk the tout, near Galashiels,..She dee'd that vera nicht.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
toutn.3
A term for a specially successful result in certain games: see quots. and cf. Littré at Tout 47.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > [noun] > successful result
tout1680
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > score or points
groat1680
tout1680
trente1706
game point1773
low1818
1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper iv. i. 48 Well, I have won the party and revenge however: a minute longer, and I had won the Tout.
1687 C. Sedley Bellamira iv. i I lost three sets at back-gammon, and a tout at trick-track, all ready money.
1891 Cent. Dict. Tout1 3. In the game of solo, a play when one person takes or proposes to take all the tricks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
toutv.1
/taʊt/, U.S. /taʊt/ a. intransitive. To peep, peer, look out; to gaze; = toot v.1 2. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > peep
beak?c1225
toot?c1225
prya1350
peekc1390
touta1400
keekc1405
peepa1500
outpeep1600
twire1602
teet1710
underpeep1827
a1400–50 Alexander 694 (Ashm.) Anec[tanabus]..treyned doune fra þe toure to tute in þe sternes [Dubl. MS., to tote on þe sternes].
a1400–50 Alexander (Ashm.) 4776 Þe kyng in his caban with his kniȝtis he ligis, Tutand out of his tents.
a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 192 Dare you also affirme, that the soules in hell haue the same knowledge, by touting into the diuell?
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Tout, to look out or upon.
b. To keep a sharp look-out or watch; to take heed; to be on the look-out. Thieves' cant.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > be vigilant or on one's guard [verb (intransitive)]
watcha1225
warea1325
bewarea1400
keepc1400
waitc1400
lay good waitc1440
to lie in great waitc1440
to look out?1553
to look about1599
awake1602
advigilate1623
to keep an eye open1651
perdue1656
to look sharp1680
waken1682
tout1699
to keep a sharp look-out1827
to keep one's weather-eye open1829
to keep (also have) an eye out1833
to keep one's eyes peeled1844
to watch out1845
to skin one's eyes1851
to have (also keep) one's eye on the ball1937
to watch one's back1949
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Tout, to look out Sharp, to be upon one's Guard.
1728 Street-robberies, Consider'd 34 Tout, take heed.
2.
a. transitive. To watch, spy on. slang.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > spy on [verb (transitive)]
waitc1200
spya1325
espyc1420
prog1566
tout1699
bespy1837
keyhole1871
to keep tabs (or a tab) on1889
tec1900
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Tout the Culls, Eye those folks which way they take.
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 220 Tout, to tout a person, is to watch his motions.
1832 Examiner 67/1 Two of them were sent forward..in disguise, to tout (watch) the door of the house.
1870 Sat. Rev. 2 Apr. 445 But..the Prince of Wales is touted, Mr. Gladstone is touted, their minutest actions are eagerly watched and regularly reported; why should not we be allowed to procure similar information about race-horses?
b. To watch furtively or spy upon (a race-horse or his trainer) with a view to using or disposing of the information for betting purposes.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > bet on [verb (transitive)] > spy on race-horse or trainer for information
tout1812
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > ride horse in race [verb (transitive)] > spy on horse or trainer for information
tout1812
1812 Sporting Mag. 39 283 He made it his business to be at the Wheat Sheaf public-house..to tout Mr. Prince, who had the mare under his training.
1870 Sat. Rev. 2 Apr. 445 The touting of race-horses is practised, not to gratify curiosity, but as an aid to gambling.
1894 M. H. Hayes Among Men & Horses (ed. 2) vi. 94 With the fear of being touted ever on them, the Newmarket trainers are..shy of strangers.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 2 Oct. 7/3 One of the most assiduously ‘touted’ animals at Newmarket during the last fortnight has been M. Aumont's Dormeuse.
3.
a. intransitive. To look out busily for customers; to solicit custom, employment, etc. importunately; also, U.S., Australian, etc., to canvass for votes.
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the mind > language > speech > request > make a request [verb (intransitive)] > for something
bid971
aska1200
seekc1366
cravec1386
entreat1427
inquire?a1513
beg1576
incall1591
urgea1616
woo1615
clamour1651
to call on ——1721
tout1731
spell1790
1731 [implied in: Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 399/1 Soon as they set Eyes on you, off flies the Hat, Does your Honour want this, does your Honour want that?.. Now this, please your Honour, is what we call Tooting, A Trick in your Custom to get the first footing. (at touting n.1)].
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) x. 92 Doctors' Commons... Two porters..as touts for licences... Two coves in vhite aprons—touches their hats ven you walk in—‘Licence, Sir, licence?’
1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xix. 168 He used to go backwards and forwards..to tout for customers.
1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. x. 272 I am to tout for introductions for you?
1869 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Gleanings (1870) II. 200 Before Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act, a particular class of clergymen, not..in very good repute, touted for marriage-fees.
1881 Nation (N.Y.) 32 397 It has never occurred to him that people would be shocked by seeing him ‘tout’ at Albany.
1891 Argus (Melbourne) 28 Sept. He should have gone round cap in hand and touted for votes.
1898 J. Hollingshead Gaiety Chron. ii. 119 The same way as postmen tout for Christmas boxes.
b. transitive (a) To importune (a person) in a touting manner; (b) to solicit custom for (a thing), to try to sell; also (U.S.) in extended sense, to recommend.
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the mind > language > speech > request > request or ask for [verb (transitive)] > urge or importune
depressc1400
nurnc1400
pressc1440
labourc1450
instancea1513
instanta1513
importune1530
to lie at, upon1535
apply1559
urge1568
importunate1574
ply1581
to put on ——?a1600
flagitate1623
besiege1712
earwig1804
bone1856
tout1920
S.O.S.a1936
opportune1941
society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > expose or offer for sale > solicit custom for
to drum up1824
drum1834
pull1896
tout1920
cold-call1985
1920 S. Lewis Main St. xvi. 199 Why, you're always touting these Greek dancers.
1928 Daily Tel. 5 May 9/6 It strikes one as..unfair for bankers to tout their clients for..investment business.
1930 R. H. Mottram Europa's Beast vii. 164 He was involved in the ghastly job of touting motor cars.
1948 M. Laski Tory Heaven i. 14 Touting vacuum-cleaners at back doors.
1974 Nature 11 Jan. 81/1 Such deposits of geothermal energy have long been touted as potential sources of power.
1978 Detroit Free Press 2 Apr. 6 e/1 Any team that touts Jerry Augustine as the ace of its staff is in serious trouble.
Derivatives
ˈtouted adj. U.S. (usually with qualifying adverb) vaunted, extolled.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [adjective] > boasted of
ybosted1377
bragged1599
self-boasted1599
vaunted1635
boasted1667
touted1895
ballyhooed1919
1895 [see sense 2b].
1953 Manch. Guardian Weekly 5 Feb. 3 The much touted Nationalist ‘offensive’ on the Chinese mainland.
1978 Sci. Amer. Aug. 32/2 The highly touted system of separating isotopes by laser excitation.
ˈtouting adj.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > soliciting custom
touting1812
canvassing1865
1812 Sporting Mag. 39 283 An object worthy the consideration of the touting firm.
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toutv.2
/taʊt/, U.S. /taʊt/, Scottish English /tʌʊt/ Scottish.
1. transitive. To toss or throw about in disorder. Also figurative to canvass, discuss.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [verb (transitive)] > ruffle or disorder
ruffle1528
trachlec1550
touta1568
displot1600
tuffle1777
tiffle1811
ruff1819
flout1875
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > examination by discussion > examine by discussion [verb (transitive)]
examinec1384
discussa1400
discutea1475
canvass1530
ventilate?1530
to go through ——1535
touta1568
dissert1623
a1568 Bannatyne Poems (Hunterian Club) 408/18 To spill the bed it war a pane, Quoth he, the laird will nocht be fane, To fynd it towtit and ourtred.
a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 410 We perceave the purpose is bot to canves and towt our maters heir a whyll, that thairefter men of lytle skill and les conscience may decern in to tham as they pleis.
1812 P. Forbes Poems 38 (E.D.D.) [He] lang an' sair the claise did tout, Dreaming o' an invasion An' fights yon night.
1899 J. Lumsden Edinb. Poems & Songs 250 Their waters mountain high Uprear in never-ending wars And tout the ships an' flout the sky As if they'd quench the eternal stars.
2.
a. To irritate, vex, tease. Cf. tout n.2
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex
gremec893
dretchc900
awhenec1000
teenOE
fretc1290
annoyc1300
atrayc1320
encumberc1330
diseasec1340
grindc1350
distemperc1386
offenda1387
arra1400
avexa1400
derea1400
miscomforta1400
angerc1400
engrievec1400
vex1418
molesta1425
entrouble?1435
destroublea1450
poina1450
rubc1450
to wring (a person) on the mailsc1450
disprofit1483
agrea1492
trouble1515
grig1553
mis-set?1553
nip?1553
grate1555
gripe1559
spitec1563
fike?1572
gall1573
corsie1574
corrosive1581
touch1581
disaccommodate1586
macerate1588
perplex1590
thorn1592
exulcerate1593
plague1595
incommode1598
affret1600
brier1601
to gall or tread on (one's) kibes1603
discommodate1606
incommodate1611
to grate on or upon1631
disincommodate1635
shog1636
ulcerate1647
incommodiate1650
to put (a person) out of his (her, etc.) way1653
discommodiate1654
discommode1657
ruffle1659
regrate1661
disoblige1668
torment1718
pesta1729
chagrin1734
pingle1740
bothera1745
potter1747
wherrit1762
to tweak the nose of1784
to play up1803
tout1808
rasp1810
outrage1818
worrit1818
werrit1825
buggerlug1850
taigle1865
get1867
to give a person the pip1881
to get across ——1888
nark1888
eat1893
to twist the tail1895
dudgeon1906
to tweak the tail of1909
sore1929
to put up1930
wouldn't it rip you!1941
sheg1943
to dick around1944
cheese1946
to pee off1946
to honk off1970
to fuck off1973
to tweak (a person's or thing's) tail1977
to tweak (a person's or thing's) nose1983
to wind up1984
to dick about1996
to-teen-
1808 in A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd (new ed.) II. App. 718 Losh preserve us Bess! At thys tym; and swa towtit!
a1837 J. D. Carrick in Whistle-Binkie 2nd Ser. 124 Weel, weel, Janet, dinna be sae toutit about it—I was awa' at a burial.
1887 P. McNeill Blawearie 61 If Bob toutit you, very likely ye hae been toutin' him too.
b. intransitive. (See quot. 1825.)
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > become diseased [verb (intransitive)] > have an attack
grudgea1513
take1530
tout1825
the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > be ill-humoured [verb (intransitive)] > become ill-humoured
to take the fling(sa1568
to take the strum or strums1788
tout1825
to take (the) stunt1837
stunt1877
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Tout, Towt, to be seized with a sudden fit of sickness [or] ill humour.
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toutadv.n.4adj.
/tu/ A. adv.
Quite, entirely.
a. tout au contraire /tut o kɔ̃trɛr/, quite the contrary.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [adverb]
fromward?c1225
contrariouslyc1380
contrarying to1382
reversinglya1425
contrary1463
clean fro1483
repugnantly?1526
diametrally?1533
contrairly1535
in diameter1543
thwartly1558
oppositely1567
contrarily1570
contrariwise1574
diameter-wise1600
diameterly1603
reciprocallya1628
diametrically1633
counter1643
encounter1660
polarly1670
Antarcticallya1711
contrariantly1796
antithetically1816
tout au contraire1841
antistrophically1842
contrapositively1858
in reverse1869
at cross-corners with1892
1841 M. Edgeworth Let. 23 Mar. (1971) 590 Scandal but not by any means ill natured tout au contraire.
1982 E. Dewhurst Whoever I Am i. 18 ‘You find it obvious that I've been on the amateur stage?’ ‘Tout au contraire... But I know.’
b. tout court /tu kur/, in short, in little, simply, without qualification or addition.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > simple or unmixed [phrase] > simply, merely, or nothing but
not buta1382
but only1478
in simple1548
tout court1747
tout simple1930
tout simplement1939
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [adverb] > in short
at a (also one) wordOE
at few wordsOE
shortly1303
in short wordsc1380
oncec1384
in short and plainc1386
in sum?a1425
at short wordsa1450
at short1513
briefly?1521
in a word1522
in one word1522
with a word1522
summa1535
to be short1544
in (the) fine1545
in few1550
summarily1567
in a sum1574
in shorta1577
in brief1609
briefa1616
in a little1623
tout court1747
sans phrase1808
in a nutshell1822
in nuce1854
1747 H. Walpole Let. 26 June in Corr. (1954) XIX. 420 My eagle is arrived—my eagle tout court, for I hear nothing of the pedestal.
1888 R. Kipling Wee Willie Winkie 38 Judy was officially ‘Miss Judy’; but Black Sheep was never anything but Black Sheep tout court.
1928 C. Dawson Age of Gods xii. 262 There are grave objections to the identification tout court of the Nordic race with the Indo-European stock.
1958 Oxf. Mag. 15 May 435/1 Hove, instead of asking for Psychology tout court, has a course by a Harley Street psychiatrist.
1981 J. Sutherland Bestsellers xxiv. 240 Len Deighton's..history tout court of the Second World War (Bomber and Fighter).
c. tout de suite /tu də sɥit/ [de suite in sequence] , at once, immediately; cf. toot sweet adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > immediacy > [adverb]
soonc825
ratheeOE
rathelyeOE
rekeneOE
rekenlyOE
thereright971
anonOE
forth ona1000
coflyc1000
ferlyc1000
radlyOE
swiftlyc1000
unyoreOE
yareOE
at the forme (also first) wordOE
nowOE
shortlya1050
rightOE
here-rightlOE
right anonlOE
anonc1175
forthrightc1175
forthwithalc1175
skeetc1175
swithc1175
with and withc1175
anon-rightc1225
anon-rights?c1225
belivec1225
lightly?c1225
quickly?c1225
tidelyc1225
fastlyc1275
hastilyc1275
i-radlichec1275
as soon asc1290
aright1297
bedenea1300
in little wevea1300
withoute(n dwella1300
alrightc1300
as fast (as)c1300
at firstc1300
in placec1300
in the placec1300
mididonec1300
outrightc1300
prestc1300
streck13..
titec1300
without delayc1300
that stounds1303
rada1325
readya1325
apacec1325
albedenec1330
as (also also) titec1330
as blivec1330
as line rightc1330
as straight as linec1330
in anec1330
in presentc1330
newlyc1330
suddenlyc1330
titelyc1330
yernec1330
as soon1340
prestly1340
streckly1340
swithly?1370
evenlya1375
redelya1375
redlya1375
rifelya1375
yeplya1375
at one blastc1380
fresha1382
ripelyc1384
presentc1385
presently1385
without arrestc1385
readilyc1390
in the twinkling of a looka1393
derflya1400
forwhya1400
skeetlya1400
straighta1400
swifta1400
maintenantc1400
out of handc1400
wightc1400
at a startc1405
immediately1420
incontinent1425
there and then1428
onenec1429
forwithc1430
downright?a1439
agatec1440
at a tricec1440
right forth1440
withouten wonec1440
whipc1460
forthwith1461
undelayed1470
incessantly1472
at a momentc1475
right nowc1475
synec1475
incontinently1484
promptly1490
in the nonce?a1500
uncontinent1506
on (upon, in) the instant1509
in short1513
at a clap1519
by and by1526
straightway1526
at a twitch1528
at the first chop1528
maintenantly1528
on a tricea1529
with a tricec1530
at once1531
belively1532
straightwaysa1533
short days1533
undelayedly1534
fro hand1535
indelayedly1535
straight forth1536
betimesc1540
livelyc1540
upononc1540
suddenly1544
at one (or a) dash?1550
at (the) first dash?1550
instantly1552
forth of hand1564
upon the nines1568
on the nail1569
at (also in, with) a thoughtc1572
indilately1572
summarily1578
at one (a) chop1581
amain1587
straightwise1588
extempore1593
presto1598
upon the place1600
directly1604
instant1604
just now1606
with a siserary1607
promiscuously1609
at (in) one (an) instant1611
on (also upon) the momenta1616
at (formerly also on or upon) sight1617
hand to fist1634
fastisha1650
nextly1657
to rights1663
straightaway1663
slap1672
at first bolt1676
point-blank1679
in point1680
offhand1686
instanter1688
sonica1688
flush1701
like a thought1720
in a crack1725
momentary1725
bumbye1727
clacka1734
plumba1734
right away1734
momentarily1739
momentaneously1753
in a snap1768
right off1771
straight an end1778
abruptedly1784
in a whistle1784
slap-bang1785
bang?1795
right off the reel1798
in a whiff1800
in a flash1801
like a shot1809
momently1812
in a brace or couple of shakes1816
in a gird1825
(all) in a rush1829
in (also at, on) short (also quick) order1830
straightly1830
toot sweetc1830
in two twos1838
rectly1843
quick-stick1844
short metre1848
right1849
at the drop of a (occasionally the) hat1854
off the hooks1860
quicksticks1860
straight off1873
bang off1886
away1887
in quick sticks (also in a quick stick)1890
ek dum1895
tout de suite1895
bung1899
one time1899
prompt1910
yesterday1911
in two ups1934
presto changeo1946
now-now1966
presto change1987
1895 E. Dowson Let. c13 Nov. (1967) 319 If you see Moore tell him that I am writing tout de suite.
1971 Ink 12 June 14/3 Some of the underwriters quietly told their clients to resell their shares tout-de-suite.
d. tout seul /tu sœl/, quite alone, on its (or his, etc.) own.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [adverb]
singlya1300
alonely1307
singularlya1340
by oddc1480
solely1582
solitarilya1641
uniquely1831
tout seul1926
1926 H. Crane Let. 19 Aug. (1965) 273 I have encountered him in the road, talking again tout seul and examining pebbles.
1954 Ess. in Crit. 4 272 The danger in self-exploration tout seul is that it can lead to loss of urgency.
e. tout simple /tu sɛ̃pl/, quite simply, just that.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > simple or unmixed [phrase] > simply, merely, or nothing but
not buta1382
but only1478
in simple1548
tout court1747
tout simple1930
tout simplement1939
1930 Harvard Law Rev. 43 881 Strict or liberal construction or interpretation is therefore the ordinary process of interpretation, tout simple.
1977 Times 14 Apr. 14/6 The event was listed as a variety show, tout simple.
f. tout simplement /tu sɛ̃pləmɑ̃/ = tout simple at sense A. e.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > simple or unmixed [phrase] > simply, merely, or nothing but
not buta1382
but only1478
in simple1548
tout court1747
tout simple1930
tout simplement1939
1939 Burlington Mag. Mar. 142/2 The most probable explanation..is, tout simplement, faulty recollection.
1973 E. Berckman Victorian Album 114 There it was. There, tout simplement, as they say, was my murder.
B. n.4 and adj.
All.
a. tout compris /tu kɔ̃pri/, all included, inclusive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > condition or state of being inclusive > included [phrase] > all included
tout compris1901
1901 Ld. Milner Let. in J. A. Smith John Buchan (1979) 34/2 You will have to pay your own way out—about £60 tout compris.
1960 Harper's Bazaar Aug. 63/1 A day in one of these hotels..can cost under 15 shillings, tout compris.
b. tout ensemble: see ensemble n. 1a.
c. tout le monde /tu lə mɔ̃d/, all the world, everyone.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > the generality > everyone
allOE
to wifeOE
everya1250
young and olda1400
everybodyc1405
all hands1655
tout le monde1825
1825 H. Wilson Mem. III. 110 Tout le monde seemed so very much to admire my person.
1944 W. H. Auden Sea & Mirror iii. 29 She invites..just tout le monde to drop in at any time.
d. (le) tout Paris /lə tu pari/, all Paris, i.e. Parisian society; also transferred, of other cities, social circles, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > [noun]
commonaltyc1300
commonweal?a1400
commonality?c1400
commonwealth1445
weal-public1495
weal1513
society1566
public1621
leviathan1651
community1737
general public1854
collectivity1881
(le) tout Paris1894
John Q.1922
Joe Citizen1932
1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby III. vii. 15 ‘Tout Paris’ passed them; but they were none the wiser, and agreed that the show was not a patch on that in Hyde Park during the London season.
1921 G. Bell Let. 5 May (1930) xx. 480 ‘Le tout’ Bagdad was there—the Arab world.
1965 N. Freeling Criminal Conversat. ii. xix. 183 I married her..for the introduction she could give me into what I thought of as ‘the club’. Le tout-Paris.
1975 P. Moyes Black Widower ii. 21 Tout Washington tends to arrive late at diplomatic cocktail parties.
1980 T. Morgan Somerset Maugham iii. 221 He wanted a hostess, who knew the tout-Londres.
1982 Times 14 Jan. 15/3 It is the talk of le tout Paris in the French business world. Who will be getting the plum jobs?
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