tocon.1
/ˈtəʊkə/ Ornithology.
The typical species of toucan n., Rhamphastos toco, a native of Guyana.
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1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 325 The Toco. The length of this bird is nine or ten inches from the head to the end of the tail... Inhabits Cayenne.
1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 323 Genus VI. Toucan. No. 1. The Toco.
1902 P. Fountain Great Mountains & Forests S. Amer. vi. 159 The native name of these birds is toco.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
tocon.2
/ˈtəʊkəʊ/ slang.
Chastisement, corporal punishment. Also figurative and in to get toco for yam.
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1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang (at cited word) Yams are food for negroes in the West-Indies,..and if, instead of receiving his proper ration of these, Blackee gets a whip (toco) about his back, why ‘he has caught toco’ instead of yam.
1848 J. R. Planché Theseus & Ariadne (1859) i. ii. 14 Toco from my father I instead of yam shall get.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. v. 119 The School leaders come up furious, and administer toco to the wretched fags nearest at hand.
1885 W. S. Gilbert Mikado i. 16 To embrace you thus, con fuoco, Would distinctly be no gioco, And for yam I should get toco.
1903 J. Coleman Charles Reade (1904) ii. ii. 274 They both caught ‘Toko’ when they went back.
1910 R. Kipling Let. in Ld. Birkenhead R. Kipling (1978) xvi. 252 The Teuton..prepares to give us toko when he feels good and ready.
1921 R. Hichens Spirit of Time xii Those Russians.. breed more princesses than we do..but they seem to be giving them toko over there—the Bolshies, I mean.
1941 J. Cary Herself Surprised lviii. 143 You'd better tell people how I took your trousers down last time and gave you toko.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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