lout

nounboor

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noun boor

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Word Origin & History

1540s, "awkward fellow, clown, bumpkin," perhaps from a dialectal survival of Middle English louten (v.) "bow down" (c.1300), from Old English lutan "bow low," from Proto-Germanic *lut- "to bow, bend, stoop" (cf. Old Norse lutr "stooping," which might also be the source of the modern English word), from PIE *leud- "to lurk" (cf. Gothic luton "to deceive," Old English lot "deceit), also "to be small" (see little). Non-Germanic cognates probably include Lithuanian liudeti "to mourn;" Old Church Slavonic luditi "to deceive," ludu "foolish." Sense of "cad" is first attested 1857 in British schoolboy slang.

Example Sentences for lout

He was the head of the school when I, the elder, was a lout in the lower fourth.

She yelled; and the knights, laughing, took the lout, And thrust him from the gate.

I saw that the lout was astonished not to hear the lamentations he expected.

And he stood, something of a lout, with nervous hands upon his hips.

The lout was in clover; nothing could have suited him so well.

A strange matter to discuss with a lout, but he was so wonderful a listener!

He interrupted the objection of a high noble with, "Be silent, lout!"

And I thought it was that crockery smashing goat of a lout of a cow-puncher.

But in Sarria's mind, the lout was an object of affection, sincere, unquestioning.

He said of his country: That Lout comes to a knowledge of his wants too late.

lout

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Philistine

barbarian

boor

boors

bounder

brute

lout

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barbarian

boor

boors

bounder

brute

Synonyms for lout

Philistine