'Lout' definitions:
Definition of 'lout'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Lout'
From: GCIDE
- Lout \Lout\, v. t. To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lout'
From: GCIDE
- Lout \Lout\ (lout), v. i. [OE. louten, luten, AS. l[=u]tan; akin to Icel. l[=u]ta, Dan. lude, OHG. l[=u]z[=e]n to lie hid.] To bend; to box; to stoop. [Archaic] --Chaucer. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- He fair the knight saluted, louting low. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lout'
From: GCIDE
- Lout \Lout\, n. [Formerly also written lowt.] A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'lout'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arriviste,
- Babbitt,
- babe,
- blockhead,
- blunderer,
- blunderhead,
- boor,
- botcher,
- bounder,
- bourgeois,
- bucolic,
- bumbler,
- bumpkin,
- bungler,
- cad,
- child,
- child of nature,
- churl,
- clod,
- clodhopper,
- clodknocker,
- clot,
- clown,
- country bumpkin,
- deride,
- dolt,
- dove,
- dupe,
- epicier,
- farmer,
- fumbler,
- gawk,
- gawky,
- gowk,
- groundling,
- guttersnipe,
- hayseed,
- hick,
- hillbilly,
- hooligan,
- ill-bred fellow,
- infant,
- ingenue,
- innocent,
- klutz,
- lamb,
- lobster,
- looby,
- low fellow,
- lubber,
- lummox,
- lump,
- mere child,
- mock,
- mucker,
- noble savage,
- nouveau riche,
- oaf,
- ox,
- palooka,
- parvenu,
- peasant,
- Philistine,
- quiz,
- rally,
- razz,
- ribald,
- rough,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- rube,
- ruffian,
- rustic,
- scout,
- simple soul,
- slouch,
- slubberer,
- taunt,
- twit,
- unsophisticate,
- upstart,
- vulgarian,
- vulgarist,
- yokel