lout
11
7.9
- noun
- /laʊt/
- Offensive
:
patán
- Everyone at the party avoided him because he acted like a complete lout.
- drunken louts
- lazy louts
- ungrateful lout
You're a complete lout, and no one would even shake his hand.
- You're a complete lout, and no one would even shake his hand.
- So I wrote the Uncle's Lout, The successful Failure, Wonderful, Wonderful tile, The Life of an Uncle's Lout.
Examples
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You thick-headed lout!
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You're a complete lout, and no one would even shake his hand.
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That young lout I told you about.
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Yes, you great lout, I heard.
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What next, you big lout?
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I refuse to marry that lout.
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They were louts, but if you choose to live like this, it's what you must expect.
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I am tired of watching these louts unload my ship.
Fiction book (1990) -
Servant of the king or not, he was an obnoxious lout and a public nuisance.
Fiction book (2002) -
Kafka hurries after him, avoiding a pair of drunken louts in the way.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
38
7.8
A person who acts in a silly or clumsy way
35
7.7
A person who is awkward or slow to do things
19
6.4
A clumsy, awkward person who behaves rudely or carelessly
9
7.7
A person who behaves awkwardly and seems slow to understand
2
9.9
A large clumsy person who often knocks things over
2
9.9
A person who is clumsy and slow to understand things
1
9.9
A person who is clumsy and acts in a silly, awkward way
1
9.9
A clumsy person who is awkward in movement or manners
1
8.1
A person who is clumsy and often seems not clever
A rude, stupid person who annoys others
Antonyms
Compounds
How Rude
- Offensive
301
3.2
- Offensive
11
7.9
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lout comes from an old Norse word lútr, which meant 'bent' or 'stooping'. Think of a clumsy person who stoops and moves roughly; that's why lout now means a rough, awkward, or rude person.