different between toot vs tost

English

Etymology 1

Probably onomatopoetic in origin, compare Dutch toeteren (“to blow a horn”) and German tuten (“to blow a horn”).

Alternative forms

• tout (in some verb senses only)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?t/
• IPA^(key): /t?t/ (in sense of "rubbish, tat")
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

toot (countable and uncountable, plural toots)

1. The noise of a horn or whistle.

2. (by extension, informal) A fart; flatus.
3. (uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
4. (countable, slang) A portion of cocaine that a person snorts.
   • 1981, New York Magazine (volume 14, number 35, page 30)

     So he took a toot. A couple of days later he did another, then another. Soon Harry was using more coke than he had done in his whole life.

5. (informal) A spree of drunkness.
6. (informal, uncountable, pronounced /t?t/) Rubbish; tat.

7. (Internet) A message on the social networking software Mastodon.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

toot (third-person singular simple present toots, present participle tooting, simple past and past participle tooted)

1. To stand out, or be prominent.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Howell to this entry?)

2. To peep; to look narrowly.
   • November 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, A Sermon preached at Stamford

     In the court, in the noblemen's houses, at every merchant's house, those Observants were spying, tooting, and looking, watching and prying, what they might hear or see against the see of Rome.
3. To see; to spy.
4. (slang) To flatulate.
5. To make the sound of a horn or whistle.
6. To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound.
7. (slang) To go on a drinking binge.
8. (slang) To snort (a recreational drug).
   • 2008, Robert L. Glover, Street Corner Symphony: An American Story (page 65)

     I had graduated from the simple tooting cocaine up my nose to smoking it, which was a completely different experience and animal.

9. To post a message on a Mastodon instance (a self-hosted version of the networking software).

Synonyms

• (to fart): See Thesaurus:flatulate
• (to sound a trumpet etc.): poop (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps a contraction of toilet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

toot (plural toots)

1. (Australia, slang) A toilet.

See also

• toot plant
• toot suite

Anagrams

• Otto, Toto, otto, toto

Westrobothnian

Etymology

Cognate with Swedish tota, dial. tåta.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ù?t

Verb

toot (preterite totä)

1. (with dill) To attempt; to try to imitate as best you can; mimic.

See also

• töt

References

English

Verb

tost

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of toss

Anagrams

• TSTO, stot, tots

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin tostum, the neuter of tostus. Cognate with French tôt, Italian tosto.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?t?st/

Adverb

tost

1. (archaic or dialectal) soon

   Synonym: aviat

German

Pronunciation

Verb

tost

1. inflection of tosen:
   1. second-person singular/plural present
   2. third-person singular present
   3. plural imperative

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tost, from Proto-Celtic *tustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???s?t??/

Noun

tost m (genitive singular tost, nominative plural tostanna)

1. silence

   Proverb:

2. verbal noun of tost

Declension

Verb

tost (present analytic tostann, future analytic tostfaidh, verbal noun tost, past participle tosta)

1. (intransitive) be silent, become silent

Conjugation

Mutation

References

• "tost" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “tost” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• “tostaim” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “tost”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tost”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “tost” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “tost” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French toster.

Verb

tost

1. Alternative form of tosten

Etymology 2

A back-formation from tosten.

Alternative forms

• toste, toost

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??st/
• Rhymes: -??st

Noun

tost (plural tostes)

1. toast (bread that has been toasted)

Descendants

• English: toast
• Scots: toast

References

• “t?st, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-14.

Old French

Etymology

Possibly from Latin tot (“very”) + cito (“fast”), but more likely from Vulgar Latin *tostum, from the neuter of Latin tostus (“toasted”), later meaning "hotly, promptly" in Vulgar Latin. Cognate to Italian tosto, Occitan and Catalan tost.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?st/

Adverb

tost

1. early
2. soon
3. quickly; straight away

Derived terms

Descendants

• French: tôt
• ? Old Portuguese: toste
  • Galician: toste
  • Portuguese: toste

References

• Bratchet, A. (1873) , “tot”, in Kitchin, G. W., transl., Etymological dictionary of the French language (Clarendon Press Series), 1st edition, London: Oxford/MacMillan and Co.
• “chignon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tustus, from the same root as tóe. Several phonological peculiarities relating to the evolution of this term, such as irregular final -st (which should have become -s(s) /s/) and the initial consonant fluctuating between t- and s-, are probably due to contamination from its synonym, socht. This contamination intensified over time, giving birth to Middle Irish and Early Modern Irish forms like tocht and sosd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tost/

Noun

tost m (genitive unattested, no plural)

1. silence

   Synonym: socht

Descendants

• Middle Irish: tost, tocht
  • Irish: tost
  • Scottish Gaelic: tost

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tost”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Polish

Etymology

From English toast, from Middle English tost.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/

Noun

tost m inan

1. toast (toasted bread)

Declension

Further reading

• tost in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• tosd

Etymology

From Old Irish tost, from Proto-Celtic *tustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t???s?t?]

Noun

tost m (genitive singular tost, no plural)

1. silence

Mutation

References

• “tost” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “tost”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tost”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Turkish

Etymology

From English toast.

Noun

tost (definite accusative tosdu, plural tostlar)

1. toast

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian toast

Noun

tost m (invariable)

1. toasted sandwich

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tostus.

Adjective

tost (feminine singular tost, plural tostion, equative tosted, comparative tostach, superlative tostaf)

1. ill
2. sore

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English toast.

Noun

tost m (uncountable)

1. toast

   Synonym: bara cras

Mutation