Sc. and U.S. [f. TOOT, TOUT v.3 Tout is Sc. spelling of (tūt).]
1. An act or fit of tooting; a copious draught.
1787. Shirrefs, Jamie & Bess, I. ii. Were he ay [sober], he then wad ay be kind, But then, anither tout may change his mind.
1816. G. Muir, Clydesdale Minstr., 56 (E.D.D.). To your health I’ll drink a tout Frae out the whisky gill.
1902. Ogilvie, J. Ogilvie, 96 (ibid.). Sit doon an’ tak a hearty tout.
2. A drinking match; a drunken fit, a spree (U.S. slang); esp. in the phrase on the toot; hence, a tea-party.
1790. Shirrefs, Poems, Gloss., Tout, a drinking-bout, a drinking match.
1891. Century Mag., Nov., 54. Grubbsy’s went off on a toot, and they’ve got nobody to ride.
1897. Howells, Landl. Lion’s Head, 228. To-day I found him at Mrs. Bevidge’s altruistic toot.
1900. Lynch, High Stakes, xxxii. (Farmer, Slang). I’d never ’a’ carried ’em … if I ’adn’t been on a regular toot for the last week.
