Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way. · A person at a racecourse who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win. · An informer in the Irish Republican Army. · A spy for a smuggler, thief, or the like.
To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag about; to promote. · To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.). · To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings. · To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.
From Middle English touten (“to jut out, protrude, gaze upon, observe, peer”), from Old English *tūtian (“to be sticking out, protrude”), related to Old English tȳtan (“to stand out, be conspicuous, shine”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tut(t)- (“to stick out, project”). Compare Icelandic túta (“a teat-like prominence”), tútna (“to be blown up”). Possibly influenced by dialectal toot (“to stick out; project; peer out; peep”), from Middle English toten, totien, from Old English tōtian (“to peep out; look; pry; spectate”). Compare also Old English tot, ġetot (“pomp, splendour, vainglory”).
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentiontoutenenm · to jut out, protrude, gaze upon, observe, peer
- Inherited-form mention*tūtianang · to be sticking out, protrude
- Cognate mentiontȳtanang · to stand out, be conspicuous, shine
- Derivation mention*tut(t)-gem-pro · to stick out, project
- Cognate mentiontútais · a teat-like prominence
- Cognate mentiontotenenm
- Cognate mentiontōtianang · to peep out; look; pry; spectate
- Cognate mentiontotang
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