Lout vs Churl - What's the difference?
lout | churl | Synonyms |
A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.
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*:But the lout looked only to his market, and was not easily repulsed. ΒΆ "He's there, I tell you," he persisted. "And for threepence I'll get you to see him. Come on, your honour! It's many a Westminster election I've seen, and beer running, from Mr. Fox,when maybe it's your honour's going to stand! Anyway, it's, Down with the mongers!"
A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin.
:(Sir Philip Sidney)
(archaic) To bend, bow, stoop.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i:
* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , vol. 1:
A rustic; a countryman or labourer; a peasant.
* Emerson
A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.
* Sir Philip Sidney
A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.
* Drayton
(Theodism) a freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall
Lout is a synonym of churl.
As nouns the difference between lout and churl
is that lout is a troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob while churl is a rustic; a countryman or labourer; a peasant.As a verb lout
is (obsolete|transitive) to treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint or lout can be (archaic) to bend, bow, stoop.lout
English
Etymology 1
Of dialectal origin, compare Middle English louten'' "to bow, bend low, stoop over" from Old English ''l?tan from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* See also * yobSee also
* hooligan * thug * yob, yobboEtymology 2
(etyl) l?tan'', from Germanic. Cognate with Old Norse , Swedish ''luta .Verb
(en verb)- He faire the knight saluted, louting low, / Who faire him quited, as that courteous was [...].
- He took the cup in his hand and, louting low, returned his best thanks [...].
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churl
English
Noun
(en noun)- Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth / Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls.
- A churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain or falsehood.
- like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf