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lout

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4
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6
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4
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/laʊt/
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/laʊt/ · /lʌʊt/

Definition of lout

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.
    “But the lout looked only to his market, and was not easily repulsed. “He’s there, I tell you,” he persisted. “And for threepence I’ll get you to see him. Come on, your honour! It’s many a Westminster election I’ve seen, and beer running, from Mr. Fox,[…]when maybe it’s your honour’s going to stand! Anyway, it’s, Down with the mongers!””
    “You see louts fresh from school kicking grey-haired servants.”
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noun

  1. A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.
    “But the lout looked only to his market, and was not easily repulsed. “He’s there, I tell you,” he persisted. “And for threepence I’ll get you to see him. Come on, your honour! It’s many a Westminster election I’ve seen, and beer running, from Mr. Fox,[…]when maybe it’s your honour’s going to stand! Anyway, it’s, Down with the mongers!””
    “You see louts fresh from school kicking grey-haired servants.”
  2. A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin.
    “The faire Pamela, whose noble hart I finde doth greatly disdaine, that the trust of her vertue is reposed in such a louts hands, as Dametas, had yet to shew an obedience, taken on a shepeardish apparell[…]”
    “Sebaſtian, I haue entertained thee, / Partly that I haue neede of ſuch a youth, / That can with ſome diſcretion doe my buſineſſe: / For ’tis no truſting to yond fooliſh Lowt;”

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint.
    “Renowned Talbot doth expect my ayde, / And I am lowted by a Traitor Villaine, / And cannot helpe the noble Cheualier:[…]”
  2. (archaic, intransitive)To bend, bow, stoop.
    “He faire the knight ſaluted, louting low, / Who faire him quited, as that courteous was[…].”
    “And the priest devoutly crossed himself, and turned and louted to the alter.”
    “He took the cup in his hand and, louting low, returned his best thanks[…].”

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Etymology

Of dialectal origin, likely derived from Middle English louten (“to bow, bend low, stoop over”), from Old English lūtan (“to bow, bend forward, stoop”), from Proto-West Germanic *lūtan, from Proto-Germanic…

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Of dialectal origin, likely derived from Middle English louten (“to bow, bend low, stoop over”), from Old English lūtan (“to bow, bend forward, stoop”), from Proto-West Germanic *lūtan, from Proto-Germanic *lūtaną (“to bow down, lout”). Alternatively, derived from Middle English louten (“to hide, lurk”), from Old English lūtian (“to lurk, skulk”), from Proto-West Germanic *lūtēn (“to be hidden, be concealed”). Compare Old Norse lútr (“stooping”), Gothic 𐌻𐌿𐍄𐍉𐌽 (lutōn, “to deceive”). Non-Germanic cognates are probably Old Church Slavonic лоудити (luditi, “to deceive”), Serbo-Croatian lud and Albanian lut (“to beg, pray”).

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