touter (touter)

[ If you have not been at Tun bridge, you may neverthele have heard that here are a parcel of fellows, mean traders, whom they call touters , and their busine touting -riding out miles to meet coaches and company coming hither, to beg their custom while here. S. Richardson, Correspondence, III. 316. toutht, v . An old spelling of tooth . Go on, School of Abuse, p. 9. toutie (tou'ti), a. [ tout3 + -ie.] Liable to take touts; haughty; irascible; bad-tempered. [Scotch.]