Lout Definition
A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.
(obsolete) To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint.
Origin of Lout
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Of dialectal origin, compare Middle English louten "to bow, bend low, stoop over" from Old English lÅ«tan from Proto-Germanic *leut-. Cognate with Old Norse lútr (“stooping"), Gothic 𐌻𐌿𐍄𐌾𐌽 (luton, “to deceive"). Non-Germanic cognates are probably Old Church Slavonic лоудити (luditi, “to deceive"), Serbo-Croatian луд (lud) and Albanian lut (“to beg, pray").
From Wiktionary
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Old English lÅ«tan, from Germanic. Cognate with Old Norse lúta, Danish lude (“to bend"), Norwegian lute (“stoop"), Swedish luta.
From Wiktionary
Middle English louten from Old English lūtan
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Possibly from lout
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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