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Definitions for lout
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. lout, clod, stumblebum, goon, oaf, lubber, lummox, lump, gawknoun

    an awkward stupid person

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Loutnoun

    Pamela, whose noble heart doth disdain, that the trust of her virtue is reposed in such a lout’s hands, had yet, to shew an obedience, taken on shepherdish apparel. Philip Sidney.

    This lowt, as he exceeds our lords, the odds
    Is, that we scarce are men, and you are gods. William Shakespeare.

    I have need of such a youth,
    That can with some discretion do my business;
    For ’tis no trusting to yon foolish lout. William Shakespeare.

    Thus wail’d the louts in melancholy strain. John Gay, Past.

  2. To Loutverb

    To pay obeisance; to bend; to bow; to stoop. Obsolete. It was used in a good sense. In Scotland they say, a fellow with lowtan or luttan shoulders; that is, one who bends forwards; his shoulders or back.

    Etymology: hlutan, to bend , Saxon.

    He fair the knight saluted, louting low,
    Who fair him quitted, as that courteous was. Fa. Qu.

    Under the sand-bag he was seen,
    Louting low, like a for’ster green. Ben Jonson, Underw.

    The palmer, grey with age, with count’nance lowting low,
    His head ev’n to the earth before the king did bow. Michael Drayton.

ChatGPT

  1. lout

    A lout is an uncouth or aggressive man or boy, typically characterized by their rude, clumsy or ignorant behavior.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Loutverb

    to bend; to box; to stoop

  2. Loutnoun

    a clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin

  3. Loutverb

    to treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint

  4. Etymology: [OE. louten, luten, AS. ltan; akin to Icel. lta, Dan. lude, OHG. lzn to lie hid.]

Wikidata

  1. Lout

    Lout is a batch document formatter invented by Jeffrey H. Kingston. It reads a high-level description of a document similar in style to LaTeX and produces a PostScript file which can be printed on most printers. Plain text and PDF output are also available. The term Lout primarily designates a document formatting programming language, while the implementation of the language is sometimes referred to as Basser Lout. Basser Lout is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Lout copies some of its formatting algorithms from TeX but is intended to be much easier to program due to the use of high-level functional programming language, instead of a macro language. While a typical installation of LaTeX, together with TeX binaries takes from 50 to 300 MB, Lout is about 1 MB. This is mainly due to fewer packages and tools, but might also be attributed to a C implementation instead of macro language source code. Lout comes with an easy-to-read user guide, and the basics can be learnt in a couple of hours. It includes packages for creating tables, charts, equations, and diagrams, everything in one package "out of the box". Lout is useful for creating reports and books and gives very precise control over typesetting.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Lout

    lowt, n. a clown, awkward fellow.—v.t. to treat as a lout.—v.i. to bend.—adj. Lout′ish, clownish: awkward and clumsy.—adv. Lout′ishly.—n. Lout′ishness. [A.S. lútan, to stoop.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. LOUT

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Lout is ranked #61899 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Lout surname appeared 324 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Lout.

    90.1% or 292 total occurrences were White.
    4.6% or 15 total occurrences were Asian.
    1.5% or 5 total occurrences were Black.
    1.5% or 5 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lout in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lout in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of lout in a Sentence

  1. J. William Fulbright:

    When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. It has no apparatus to deal with the boor, the liar, the lout, and the antidemocrat in general.

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