Lout vs Louty - What's the difference?
lout | louty |
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:
(rare) loutish
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 1, author=Richard B. Woodward, title=Armchair Traveler, work=New York Times
, passage=The country’s “self-serving and bogus view of history,” which pities the rest of the world for its disorder, hides what he sees as “the lumpen and louty , coarse, unsubtle, beady-eyed, beefy-bummed herd of England .” }}
As a noun 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.As an adjective louty is
(rare) loutish.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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louty
English
Adjective
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