tost

English

Etymology 1

Verb

tost

1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of toss.
   • 16th century, Edmund Spenser, Amoretti, SONNET. XXXIII.:

     How then ſhould I without another wit :

     thinck euer to endure ſo tædious toyle,

     ſins that this one is toſt with troublous fit,

     of a proud loue, that doth my ſpirite ſpoyle.

   • 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto I. The Chase.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza XXII, page 28:

     A wanderer, here by fortune tost, / My way, my friends, my courser lost, / I ne'er before, believe me, fair, / Have ever drawn your mountain air, / Till on this lake's romantic strand, / I found a fay in fairy land.

Derived terms

• tempest-tost

Etymology 2

Noun

tost (countable and uncountable, plural tosts)

1. Obsolete spelling of toast.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v], page 52, column 1:

     Go, fetch me a quart of Sacke, put a toſt in't.

Anagrams

• Otts, tots, TOTs, TSTO, TTOs, stot

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtɔst]

Adverb

tost

1. (archaic or dialectal) soon

   Synonym: aviat

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

tost

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