louts

nounboor

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noun boor

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 louts

And the louts come and pound at the great gate, and we pound back again, and shout at them.

Near the roof, and I am to share it with one of those two louts you saw.

You think that these Prussian louts are going to beat the French army?

I vote we keep out of that this term, or leave it to the louts.

He springs forward, he louts low and sweeps upwards with Whitefire.

It is only when the men are oafs and louts that they are driven off.

I fancy the louts we have about us durst not venture thither.

Chut, Madame, why should I be a prophetess to say that the Prussian louts are going to run?

The crew still stands in a gang, exactly like a gang of louts at a street-corner.

I had no notion they bred cattle of that quality amongst these louts of Saxons.

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