touting
English edit
Verb edit
touting
- present participle and gerund of tout
Noun edit
touting (plural toutings)
- The act of one who touts.
- 1850, F. A. Wilson, Alfred Bate Richards, Britain Redeemed and Canada Preserved, page 186:
- Abortive therefore, in a great measure, are the daily toutings of the emigration speculators, and their active crimps, with all their plausible assurances of speedy independence to be gained by adventurers of the pauper class […]