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lout

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4 lettersPronunciation /laʊt/Part of speech nounSorted lotuStarts with LEnds with T0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. an awkward stupid person

Word origin

Of dialectal origin, likely derived from Middle English louten (“to bow, bend low, stoop over”), from Old English lūtan (“to bow, bend forward, stoop”), from Proto-West Germanic *lūtan, from Proto-Germanic *lūtaną (“to bow down, lout”).

Used in a sentence

  • You see louts fresh from school kicking grey-haired servants.
  • The faire Pamela, whose noble hart I finde doth greatly disdaine, that the trust of her vertue is reposed in such a louts hands, as Dametas, had yet to shew an obedience, taken on a shepeardish apparell[…]
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  • Sebaſtian, I haue entertained thee, / Partly that I haue neede of ſuch a youth, / That can with ſome diſcretion doe my buſineſſe: / For ’tis no truſting to yond fooliſh Lowt;

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