Obs. Also 5–6 towte. [Derivation obscure: ME. toute answers to an OE. *túte, belonging to the root *tút-, 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 turiþ 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.
