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verb | noun touttout1 /taʊt/ ●○○ verb ETYMOLOGYtout1Origin: 1700-1800 tout to look secretly, watch (14-19 centuries), perhaps from an unrecorded Old English tutian VERB TABLEtout |
Present | I, you, we, they | tout | | he, she, it | touts | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | touted | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have touted | | he, she, it | has touted | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had touted | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will tout | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have touted |
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Present | I | am touting | | he, she, it | is touting | | you, we, they | are touting | Past | I, he, she, it | was touting | | you, we, they | were touting | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been touting | | he, she, it | has been touting | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been touting | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be touting | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been touting |
1[transitive] to praise someone or something in order to persuade people that that person or thing is important or valuable: The mayor has been touting his record on fighting crime.be touted as something For years German engineering was touted as the best that money could buy.2[intransitive, transitive] to try to persuade people to buy goods or services you are offering verb | noun touttout2 noun [countable] someone who tries to sell goods or services to people passing on the street in a determined or annoying way |