▪ I. † toute Obs.
Also 5–6 towte.
[Derivation obscure: ME. toute answers to an OE. *t{uacu}te, belonging to the root *t{uacu}t-, to stick out, project: see note to toot v.1]
The buttocks, fundament, posteriors, rump.
| c 1305 Land Cokayne 136 He [the abbot] takeþ maidin of þe route And turniþ vp her white toute And betiþ þe taburs wiþ is hond To make is monkes liȝt to lond. c 1386 Chaucer Miller's T. 626 Of gooth the skyn an hande brede aboute, The hoote kultour brende so his toute. c 1450 Cokwolds Daunce 120 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 43 To vse we[l]e the lechers craft, With rubyng of ther toute. c 1460 Towneley Myst. ii. 63 Com nar, & other drife or hald, and kys the dwillis toute. |
▪ II. toute
var. tot n.1 Obs., fool; obs. f. tout n.1