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Mezentian (iou) and tooter (iou)


Mezentian (iou)



Mezentian adjective. M19.
[from Mezentius (see below) + -AN.]
Of an action etc.: cruelly binding, comparable to that of Mezentius, a mythical Etruscan king who had living people bound to corpses and left to starve.
Sydney Smith That fatal and Mezentian oath which binds the Irish to the English Church.

tooter (iou)



tooter noun. E17.
[from TOOT verb2 + -ER1.]
A person who toots, or plays on a wind instrument; a trumpeter, a piper. E17.
A horn, a wind instrument. M19.
A person who proclaims something loudly; spec. = TOUT noun1 3a. US. M19.