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Lout
is one of our favorite verbs.
So is kibitz. Does it mean:
| chat, to converse |
| to spend time idly; loaf. |
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World English Dictionary
lout1 (laʊt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| a crude or oafish person; boor | |
| [C16: perhaps from | |
| lout2 (laʊt) | |
| —vb | |
| archaic (intr) to bow or stoop | |
| [Old English lūtan; related to Old Norse lūta] | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
lout
1540s, "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-Germanic 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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FOLDOC
Computing Dictionary
Lout definition
Lout is a batch text formatting system and an embedded language by Jeffrey H. Kingston
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.cs.su.oz.au/jeff/lout.2.03.tar.Z), (ftp://ftp.uu.net/tmp/lout.tar.Z). Amiga (ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/text/dtp/loutBin203.lha).
(1993-07-30)
Example sentences
He was a boastful lout and a petty thief, who was a great source of pride to his father, despite his many shortcomings.
To them, turning into a drunken lout improves their personality.
They only have to establish, on the balance of probabilities, that the local lout is making other people's lives difficult.
The bottom line is that many a great author has been a lout.
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