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Lout vs Deign - What's the difference?

lout | deign |

As verbs the difference between lout and deign

is that lout is (obsolete|transitive) to treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint or lout can be (archaic) to bend, bow, stoop while deign is to condescend; to accept as appropriate to one's dignity.

As a noun lout

is a troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.

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 [...].

    References

    deign

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To condescend; to accept as appropriate to one's dignity.
    • He didn't even deign to give us a nod of the head; he thought us that far beneath him.
  • To condescend to give; to do something.
  • * William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act I scene II:
    • Nor would we deign him burial of his men.
  • * 1871 , Charlotte Mary Yonge, Heartsease, Or, The Brother's Wife (volume 2, page 189)
    • He, who usually hardly deigned a glance at his infants, now lay gazing with inexpressible softness and sadness at the little sleeping face
  • (obsolete) To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice.
  • * 1598?' , William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona , Act I, scene I, line 162-3
    • I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,receiving them from such a worthless post.

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