Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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tout

/taʊt/ noun, verb

Forms touts touting touted

  1. noun Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way. “Be careful of the ticket touts outside the arena; they are famed for selling counterfeits.”
  2. noun A person at a racecourse who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
  3. noun (colloquial) An informer in the Irish Republican Army.
  4. noun (colloquial, archaic) A spy for a smuggler, thief, or the like.
  5. verb (transitive) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag about; to promote. “Mary has been touted as a potential successor to the current CEO.”
  6. verb (UK, slang, horse-racing, transitive) To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.).
  7. verb (US, slang, horse-racing, transitive) To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings.
  8. verb (UK, slang, horse-racing, intransitive) 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.
  9. verb (US, slang, horse-racing, intransitive) To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.
  10. verb (intransitive) To look for, try to obtain; used with for.
  11. verb (obsolete) To look upon or watch.
  12. noun (card games) In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.

Synonyms

barker pitchman spruiker pimp pitch promote spruik ticket tout touter tipster boast swash shoot a line brag gas blow bluster vaunt gasconade

Etymology

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”).

Probably from French tout (“all”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To act as a tout. See 2d Tout. [Cant. Eng.]
  2. verb To ply or seek for customers. [Prov. Eng.]
  3. noun One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting. [Cant. Eng.]
  4. verb To toot a horn.

Etymology [See 1st Toot.]

Etymology [See 3d Toot.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “tout”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details