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lout

1  [lout]
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–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 lout 2

lout

2  [lout]
–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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lout 1   (lout)   
n.  An awkward and stupid person; an oaf. See Synonyms at boor.

[Possibly from lout2.]
lout 2   (lout)   
intr.v.   lout·ed, lout·ing, louts

  1. To bow or curtsy.

  2. To bend or stoop.


[Middle English louten, from Old English lūtan.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

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)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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