Lout vs Lour - What's the difference?
lout | lour |
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. ¶ "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:
To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
* 1623 [1593] , (First Folio), act I, scene i
* 1922 , , IX, lines 21-22
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To frown; to look sullen.
* (rfdate) John Dryden:
As verbs the difference between lout and lour
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 lour is to be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.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)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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Alternative forms
*Verb
(en verb)- And all the clouds that lowr'd vpon our hou?e
- If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours
- To-morrow it will hie on far behests;
- If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours
- To-morrow it will hie on far behests;
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- But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face.