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lout1

[lout] Pronunciation Key

–noun

1.	an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf.

–verb (used with object)

2.	to flout; treat with contempt; scorn.

[Origin: 1540–50; perh. special use of lout²

]

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lout2

[lout] Pronunciation Key

–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

to bend, stoop, or bow, esp. in respect or courtesy.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME louten, OE lūtan; c. ON lūta; akin to little

]

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lout¹ (lout) Pronunciation Key
n. An awkward and stupid person; an oaf. See Synonyms at boor.

[Possibly from lout².]

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lout² (lout) Pronunciation Key
intr.v. lout·ed, lout·ing, louts

To bow or curtsy.
To bend or stoop.

[Middle English louten, from Old English lūtan.]

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lout (n.)

1548, "awkward fellow, clown, bumpkin," perhaps from dialectal derivative of O.E. verb lutan "bow low," from P.Gmc. *leut- "to bow, bend, stoop" (cf. O.N. lutr "stooping"), from PIE *leud- "to lurk" (cf. Goth. luton "to deceive," O.E. lot "deceit), also "to be small" (see little). Non-Gmc. cognates probably include Lith. liudeti "to mourn;" O.C.S. luditi "to deceive," ludu "foolish." Sense of "cad" is first attested 1857 in British schoolboy slang.

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lout
noun
an awkward stupid person

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Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This

Lout
Lout is a batch text formatting system and an embedded language by Jeffrey H. Kingston . The language is procedural, with Scribe-like syntax.
Lout features equation formatting, tables, diagrams, rotation and scaling, sorted indexes, bibliographic databases, running headers and odd-even pages and automatic cross-referencing. Lout is easily extended with definitions which are very much easier to write than troff of TeX macros because Lout is a high-level language, the outcome of an eight-year research project that went back to the beginning.
Version 2.05 includes a translator from Lout to PostScript and documentation. and runs under Unix and on the Amiga.
Author's site, (ftp://ftp.uu.net/tmp/lout.tar.Z). Amiga.
(1993-07-30)

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Lout

Lout\, v. i. [OE. louten, luten, AS. l?tan; akin to Icel. l?ta, Dan. lude, OHG. l?z?n to lie hid.] To bend; to box; to stoop. [Archaic] --Chaucer. Longfellow.

He fair the knight saluted, louting low. --Spenser.

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Lout

Lout\, n. [Formerly also written lowt.] A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin. --Sir P. Sidney.

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Lout

Lout\, v. t. To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint. [Obs.] --Shak.

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