lout

1 [lout]
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; perhaps special use of lout2

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lout

2 [lout]
verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
to bend, stoop, or bow, especially in respect or courtesy.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English louten, Old English lūtan; cognate with Old Norse lūta; akin to little

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lout1 (laʊt) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
a crude or oafish person; boor
 
[C16: perhaps from lout²]

lout2 (laʊt) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
vb
archaic (intr) to bow or stoop
 
[Old English lūtan; related to Old Norse lūta]

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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.
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Lout definition


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.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)

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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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