† touten.
Obsolete.
The buttocks, fundament, posteriors, rump.
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c1305 Land Cokayne 136 He [the abbot] takeþ maidin of þe route And turniþ vp her white toute And betiþ þe taburs wiþ is hond To make is monkes liȝt to lond.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 28003 If þou..has bituix hir scankes gan, Or tirid or [? read hir]tut or skirt uptan.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 624 Of gooth the skyn an handebrede aboute The hoote cultour brende so his toute.
c1450 Cokwolds Daunce 120 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. I. 43 To vse we[l]e the lechers craft, With rubyng of ther toute.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 14 Com nar, and other drife or hald—And kys the dwillis toute!
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