Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈtəʊ.kəʊ/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈtoʊ.koʊ/
Pronunciation notes
- US
Noun
Corporal punishment; chastisement; beatings.
Usage- British
- Obsolete
- Slang
- Uncountable
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The School leaders come up furious, and administer toco to the wretched fags nearest at hand; they may well be angry, for it is all Lombard-street to a china orange that the School-house kick a goal with the ball touched in such a good place.
Yum-Yum: But as I'm engaged to Ko-Ko, / To embrace you thus, con fuoco, / Would distinctly be no gioco, / And for yam I should get toco— Both: Toco, toco, toco, toco.
Noun
Synonym of toco toucan
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The Toco Toucan is surely among the most striking of the toucans, with its black-and-white body and enormous yellow-orange bill. [...] Tocos make loud rattling or clacking sounds with their bills.
Diabetes mellitus has been reported in tocos (R. toco) and keel-billed toucans.
Noun
Crateva tapia, a fruit tree of South and Central America.