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Lout vs Loblolly - What's the difference?

lout | loblolly |

As nouns the difference between lout and loblolly

is that lout is a troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob while loblolly is (dialect|nautical) gruel.

As verbs the difference between lout and loblolly

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 loblolly is behave in a loutish manner.

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

    loblolly

    English

    Alternative forms

    lob-lolly, lob lolly, loblollie, lob-lollie, loplolly

    Noun

  • (dialect, nautical) Gruel.
  • (US, southern) A mudhole.
  • * 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 122:
    • he and Narcissa paddled and splashed with tucked-up garments and muddy bottoms, after the crudest of whittled boats, or made loblollies by treading and treading in one spot with the intense oblivion of alchemists.
  • (now mostly dialect) A bumpkin or lout.
  • * 1675 , ), ''Burlesque upon Burlesque: or, The scoffer scoft , 86
    • Whil'st he, not dreaming of thy folly,
    Lies gaping like a great Lob-lolly
  • * 1694 , .
    • This also is to be as silly as that jolt-headed loblolly of a carter, who, having laid his waggon fast in a slough, down on his marrow-bones was calling on the strong-backed deity, Hercules, might and main, to help him at a dead lift, but all the while forgot to goad on his oxen and lay his shoulder to the wheels, as it behoved him; as if a Lord have mercy upon us alone would have got his cart out of the mire.
  • * 1777 , Charles Shadwell, "The fair quaker of deal", in Bell's British Theatre , pages 21 to 22, OCLC 2986037.
    • If he would force the surgeon to cure us at the government's charge, it would be a mighty encouragement to us; but our rogue of a loblolly doctor, being not satisfied with his two-pences, must have a note for two months pay for every cure [...]
  • * 1914 , Macmillan's Annual , page 46, OCLC 609887069
    • A yellow-eyed collie
  • *:: Was guarding his coat-
    • Loose-limbed and lob-lolly ,
  • *:: But wise and remote.
  • * 1920 , Jeffery Farnol, Black Bartlemy's Treasure , page 62, ISBN 1417916605 (2004)
    • [...] there's this great, lob-lolly , hectoring Tom Button fast i' the pillory [...]
  • * 1932 , Journal of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce , volume 80, page 185.
    • There was a wave of slackness, and young men preferred to remain lob-lolly lesser Hindus than to follow their fathers' stern creed.
  • * 1946 , George Bagshawe Harrison, A Jocobean Journal , page 176, OCLC 14246203.
    • This lob-lolly would for ever be making love to ladies, to the no small gain of the pages, whou would feign to bring him commendations and tokens from the ladies in return for angels.
  • * 2007 , H. J. Popowski, All A Young Man Could Ask For , page 7, ISBN 143433869X.
    • When he heard a rumour circulating amongst the Irish lob-lolly gangs of track layers, he caught a ride on the Pennsylvania and Eastern [...]
  • Loblolly pine, Pinus taeda .
  • Loblolly bay (plant).

    • Derived terms

    * loblolly bay * loblolly boy * loblolly pine * loblolly tree

    References

    Verb

  • Behave in a loutish manner.
  • * 1898 , William Black, Wild Eelin , page 174, OCLC 2066856.
    • You'd rather lob-lolly about these refreshment-rooms, and stuff yourselves until you can't stir.