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Lout vs Swad - What's the difference?

lout | swad |

As nouns the difference between lout and swad

is that lout is a troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob while swad is a bunch, clump, mass.

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.

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. ¶ "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

    swad

    English

    Alternative forms

    * swod

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bunch, clump, mass
  • * 1895 — , chapter X
    • "Ye'd oughta see th' swad a' chil'ren I've got, an' all like that."
  • (obsolete, slang) A crowd; a group of people.
  • (obsolete) A boor, lout.
  • * 1591 — , scene 2
    • Sham’st thou not coistrel, loathsome dunghill swad .
  • * Ben Jonson
    • There was one busy fellow was their leader, / A blunt, squat swad , but lower than yourself.
  • * Greene
    • Country swains, and silly swads .
  • (mining) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.
    • (Raymond)
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete, Northern) A cod, or pod, as of beans or peas.
  • * Blount
    • Swad , in the north, is a peascod shell — thence used for an empty, shallow-headed fellow.
    (Webster 1913)

    Synonyms

    * bunch, clump, mass

    References

    * WordNet 3.0 (2006, Princeton University);

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