Etymology: < toot v.¹

Etymology: < toot v.²

Etymology: < toot v.³ Tout is Scots spelling of /tuːt/.

Etymology: Origin obscure.

Etymology: Anglicized form of the Maori name tutu.

Etymology: < Hindi tut.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps a variant of tut n.¹ (compare tut n.¹ 2), or perhaps shortened < toilet n. (perhaps originally reflecting a child's pronunciation), or perhaps related to toot v.² in slang use in sense ‘to break wind’.

Etymology: Old English tótian , a word of single occurrence (see quot. c897 at sense 1), of which Middle English tōte , toote , and modern toot are the regular representatives. Old English had also týtan ( < tūtjan ) to peep out, become visible, as a star; and Middle English had tūten , modern tout v.¹ These indicate two synonymous Old English and Old Germanic stems, tôt, and tût-, the relation between which is obscure. Words apparently connected with Old English tótian, týtan, Middle English tōte, tūte, modern toot, tout, are Dutch tuit spout, snout, Middle Dutch tûte nipple, pap, early modern Dutch (Kilian) tote, tuyte horn, apex, cone, also tote nipple, teat, Low German tote, point, teat; also Middle Low German tûte horn, funnel, Low German tûte, tût spout, East Frisian tûte pipe, spout, snout. Compare also Old Norse túta ‘teat-like prominence’ (Vigfusson), tota teat, toe of a shoe, Norwegian dialect tota something projecting, as a spout; Danish tud spout of a cask, Swedish tut, modern Norwegian tût also snout, horn; with many other derivatives all pointing to an original sense of something projecting or sticking out. Except Norwegian tyte, ‘to trickle or ooze out’, the verbs appear only in English, where also the special sense of ‘look or peep out’ has been developed.

Etymology: Known only from c1510. Compare Middle Low German, Low German tûten , also German tuten , Dutch tuyten , toeten to blow a horn; perhaps originally echoic, imitating the sound of a horn, etc. Not related to Old Norse þjóta to blow a horn, whistle (see theoten v., in Ormin þūtenn, to howl); the Norwegian tûta, Swedish tūta, Danish tūde, in same sense, are perhaps influenced by Low German, whence also the English may have been taken.

Etymology: In Scots tout/tuːt/, in Anglicized spelling toot. Of obscure origin, perhaps originally thieves' cant. Compare Swedish (vulgar or familiar) tūta to drink grog; but this is perhaps < English.