Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An awkward and stupid person; an oaf.
- intransitive verb To bow or curtsy.
- intransitive verb To bend or stoop.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An awkward, ungainly fellow; a clown.
- To treat as a lout; flout.
- To low or bellow.
- To bend, stoop, or crouch; bow; courtesy; make humble obeisance.
- To lie quiet; lurk. See
lote . - To loiter, tarry, or stay. Hearne.
- To bow down; abase.
- To milk, as a cow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Archaic To bend; to box; to stoop.
- noun A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin.
- transitive verb obsolete To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Troublemaker , often violent. - noun A
clownish ,awkward fellow; abumpkin . - noun A rude violent man,
yob . - verb obsolete, transitive To treat as a lout or fool; to
neglect ; todisappoint . - verb intransitive, archaic To
bend ,bow ,stoop .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an awkward stupid person
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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Ignorant, callous, self-centered, incapable of self-improvement lout is more like it.
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Then her cheeks became red with anger as she remembered that her Tom had been called a lout — a stupid lout.
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Then her cheeks became red with anger as she remembered that her Tom had been called a lout -- a stupid lout.
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Then her cheeks became red with anger as she remembered that her Tom had been called a lout -- a stupid lout.
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Then her cheeks became red with anger as she remembered that her Tom had been called a lout -- a stupid lout.
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The talk show host, well-known left-leaning journalist Gad Lerner, invited Berlusconi to tone down his comments and at one point called him a "lout" when Berlusconi made a swipe against the female guests on the show.
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From this there grew up within her mind a certain respect for the "lout", which, however, made him more disagreeable to her than he might have been had he been less persistent.
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Before the day was over Lady Tringle spoke to her son, and was astonished to find that the "lout" was quite in earnest -- so much in earnest that he declared his purpose of marrying his cousin in opposition to his father and mother, in opposition even to Ayala herself.
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From this there grew up within her mind a certain respect for the "lout", which, however, made him more disagreeable to her than he might have been had he been less persistent.
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Before the day was over Lady Tringle spoke to her son, and was astonished to find that the "lout" was quite in earnest -- so much in earnest that he declared his purpose of marrying his cousin in opposition to his father and mother, in opposition even to Ayala herself.
yarb commented on the word lout
Lout under NO SMOKING triangle smokes.
- Peter Reading, Clues, from Fiction, 1979
June 26, 2008