Lout Definition

lout
louts
noun
louts
An awkward, ill-mannered person; boor.
Webster's New World

A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.

Wiktionary
verb
louts
To bow or curtsy; stoop.
Webster's New World
To bend or stoop.
American Heritage

(obsolete) To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint.

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Other Word Forms of Lout

Noun

Singular:
lout
Plural:
louts

Origin of Lout

  • Of dialectal origin, compare Middle English louten "to bow, bend low, stoop over" from Old English lÅ«tan from Proto-Germanic *leut-. Cognate with Old Norse lútr (“stooping"), Gothic 𐌻𐌿𐍄𐌾𐌽 (luton, “to deceive"). Non-Germanic cognates are probably Old Church Slavonic лоудити (luditi, “to deceive"), Serbo-Croatian луд (lud) and Albanian lut (“to beg, pray").

    From Wiktionary

  • Old English lÅ«tan, from Germanic. Cognate with Old Norse lúta, Danish lude (“to bend"), Norwegian lute (“stoop"), Swedish luta.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English louten from Old English lūtan

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Possibly from lout

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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