Flaunt vs. Tout — What's the Difference?

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A tout is any person who solicits business or employment in a persistent and annoying manner (generally equivalent to a solicitor or barker in American English, or a spruiker in Australian English). An example would be a person who frequents heavily touristed areas and presents himself as a tour guide (particularly towards those who do not speak the local language) but operates on behalf of local bars, restaurant, or hotels, being paid to direct tourists towards certain establishments.

Display (something) ostentatiously, especially in order to provoke envy or admiration or to show defiance

To promote or praise energetically; publicize

To exhibit ostentatiously or shamelessly

To solicit or importune

Usage Problem To ignore or disregard (a rule, for example) openly or scornfully.

Chiefly British To obtain or sell information on (a racehorse or stable) for the guidance of bettors.

To show oneself off or move in an ostentatious way

To solicit customers, votes, or patronage, especially in a brazen way.

To wave grandly

Chiefly British To obtain and deal in information on racehorses.

To wave or flutter smartly in the wind.

One who solicits customers brazenly or persistently

(transitive) To parade, display with ostentation.

Chiefly British One who obtains information on racehorses and their prospects and sells it to bettors.

To show off, as with flashy clothing.

Chiefly Scots and Irish Slang One who informs against others; an informer.

(obsolete) Anything displayed for show.

Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.

To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show.

A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.

To display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of.

(colloquial) An informer in the Irish Republican Army.

Anything displayed for show.

A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.

The act of displaying something ostentatiously;

(card games) In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.

Display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously;

(transitive) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; 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.

To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.

(intransitive) To look for, try to obtain; used with for.

(obsolete) To look upon or watch.

To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.

To ply or seek for customers.

To look narrowly; spy.

To spy out the movements of race horses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.

To toot a horn.

To spy out information about, as a racing stable or horse.

One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting.

One who gives a tip on a race horses for an expected compensation, esp. in hopes of a share in any winnings; - usually contemptuous.

One who solicits custom, as a runner for a hotel, cab, gambling place.

A spy for a smuggler, thief, or the like.

In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.

The anus.

Someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit

Someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way

One who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)

Advertize in strongly positive terms;

Show off