Lout
[laʊt]
Definition
(v. i.) To bend; to box; to stoop.
(n.) A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin.
(v. t.) To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint.
Editor: Maureen
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Bumpkin, clown, boor, lubber, bungler, fumbler, clumsy fellow, awkward fellow.
Typed by Anton
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Clown, looby, clodhopper, clod
ANT:Dandy, fop, cockney, prig
Checker: Stella
Definition
n. a clown awkward fellow.—v.t. to treat as a lout.—v.i. to bend.—adj. Lout′ish clownish: awkward and clumsy.—adv. Lout′ishly.—n. Lout′ishness.
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Examples
- Also he was piqued that he had been what he called such a stupid lout as to ask that intervention from Mr. Farebrother. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Sometimes she sat among the louts in the cinema: rakish-looking, unattractive louts they were. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What difference does it make to me whether your Yorkshire louts hate me or like me? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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