Louted vs Luted - What's the difference?
louted | luted |
(lout)
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:
(lute)
A fretted stringed instrument, similar to a guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox.
To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
* Tennyson
Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
(brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mould.
To fix or fasten something with lute.
* 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Friend's Friend’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio Society 2005, page 179:
As verbs the difference between louted and luted
is that louted is past tense of lout while luted is past tense of lute.louted
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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 [...].
References
luted
English
Verb
(head)lute
English
(wikipedia lute)Etymology 1
From (etyl) lut (modern (luth)), from (etyl) (probably representing an (etyl) or North African pronunciation).Noun
(en noun)See also
* barbiton, barbitos * guembri * guqin * mandola * mandolin * oud * pipa * rebab * samisen, shamisen * theorboVerb
(lut)- Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.
- (Piers Plowman)
- (Keats)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) lut, ultimately from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(lut)- To protect everything till it dried, a man luted a big blue paper cap from a cracker, with meringue-cream, low down on Jevon's forehead.