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Gout vs Lout - What's the difference?

gout | lout |

As nouns the difference between gout and lout

is that gout is taste, flavour while lout is a troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.

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.

gout

English

(wikipedia gout)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pathology, not countable) An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.
  • (usually, followed by of) A spurt or splotch.
  • * , Macbeth , act 2, scene 1:
    • I see thee still,
    And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood.
  • * 1981 , , Children of Men , ch. 20, page 137:
    • [S]mall chunks of rubble and gouts of soot had fallen from the chimney, and were ground into the rug under his unwary feet.
  • * 2002 , , The Shadow of the Lion , (Google preview):
    • Another blow sent gouts of blood flying, along with gobbets of flesh.
  • (rare) A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989)

    • Synonyms

    * gouty arthritis * urarthritis * crystalline arthritis

    Related terms

    * gutter

    Derived terms

    * gouty * goutiness * pseudogout

    References

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    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)
  • A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.
  • *
  • *: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)
    • Synonyms
    * See also * yob
    Related terms
    * lager lout

    See also

    * hooligan * thug * yob, yobbo

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) l?tan'', from Germanic. Cognate with Old Norse , Swedish ''luta .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To bend, bow, stoop.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i:
    • He faire the knight saluted, louting low, / Who faire him quited, as that courteous was [...].
  • * 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , vol. 1:
    • He took the cup in his hand and, louting low, returned his best thanks [...].

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