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Definition: Loutish |
LoutishAdjective1. Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "loutish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: LoutishSynonyms: boorish (adj), neandertal (adj), neanderthal (adj), oafish (adj), swinish (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Rustic, uncivilized; loutish, boorish, clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish; rude, unlicked. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Loutish |
| English words defined with "loutish": boorish ♦ Neandertal, neanderthal ♦ o.k., oafish ♦ swinish. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "loutish": Jean Farine. (references) |
| "Loutish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.00% of the time. "Loutish" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 95% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (proper) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "loutish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i pagdhendur (artless, bearish, crass, Hick, hillbilly, lowlife, oafish, raffish, rank, rough, uncouth, unhewn), harbut (boor, caddish, churl, discourteous, disrespectful, graceless, indelicate, lout). (various references) | |
Arabic | فلاح (cotter, farmer, peasant, planter, tiller), حمار (ass, burro, donkey, jackass, stupid), غليظ (boor, churlish, coarse, hoarse, mannerless, robust, rugged, rustic, stodgy, strongarm, thick, ungainly, unmannerly, wild). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | груб (abrupt, bearish, boeotian, brusque, callous, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, common, crude, cubbish, curt, earthy, feral, glaring, graceless, gross, gruff, hard boiled, harsh, heavy, hoggish, homespun, horny, low, material, outlandish, raspy, raucous, raw, rough, rough-shod, rowdy, rude, rugged, russet, rusty, short, surly, tough, uncivil, uncouth, wild and woolly), недодялан (coarse, countrified, gawky, heavy, inurbane, rough-hewn, rugged, rustic, unaccomplished, uncouth, unfinished, unlicked, unrefined, wild and woolly, zizzi), дебелашки (boorish, oafish). (various references) | |
Czech | nevychovaný (gross, ignorant, ill bred, uncultivated), neotesaný (churlish, coarse, common, gross, ignorant, rugged, uncouth). (various references) | |
Finnish | moukkamainen (boorish, unmannerly). (various references) | |
French | vulgaire, voyou (lout), rustre, grossier (low), de rustre, de butor, bouseux. (various references) | |
German | flegelhaft (boorish, boorishly, churlish, churlishly, oafish, uncouth), lümmelhaft (boorish, ill mannered, oafish). (various references) | |
Greek | αδέξιοσ (awkward, clownish, clumsy, dabbler, gauche, heavy-handed, inapt, lubberly, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, skilless, slouch, squirt, unapt, ungainly, unhandy, unskillful). (various references) | |
Hungarian | faragatlan (boorish, churlish, earthy, hairy-heeled, homespun, ill bred, rough-hewn, rude, rugged, tacky, uncouth, unframed, unhewn). (various references) | |
Italian | villano (caddish, churlish, impolite, lout, rude, surly, villein, yokel). (various references) | |
Manx | gowranagh (clownish). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | outishlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rústico (backwoods, boor, boorish, bumbling, bumpkin, chuff, churl, churlish, cloddish, clodhopper, clown, countrified, lob, low-bred, lubber, mucker, peasant, rude, rural, rustic, rustical, uncouth, underbred, yokel), grosseiro (awkward, bearish, blanket, boorish, bumbling, caddish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, coarse-grained, common, crass, crude, cub, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, earthy, gross, gruff, harsh, heavy-handed, hoggish, homely, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelaborate, joggly, lacerated, left-handed, lob, low-bred, lubberly, lumpish, piggish, ragged, ribald, rough, rude, rugged, scurrilous, surly, swinish, thick, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, unkind, unladylike, unmannerly, unparliamentary, untaught, vulgar, vulgarian, wooden), desajeitado (awkward, backhanded, blundering, boorish, bulky, bumbling, chuckle, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, cubbish, floppy, fumbling, gawky, graceless, hawbuck, hobbledehoy, homely, hulking, ill-favored, ill-favoured, ill-mannered, inexpert, left-handed, lout, low-bred, lubber, lubberly, maladroit, muff, shiftless, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unskilful, unwieldy, wooden), boçal. (various references) | |
Romanian | necioplit (barbarous, boorish, churl, churlish, coarse, oafish, rough, unaccomplished, uncouth, unmannerly, unpolished, with the bark on), grosolan (boorish, broad, brutish, churlish, clumsy, coarse, coarsely, crass, crude, currish, elephantine, flagrant, glaring, gross, grossly, homespun, ill bred, indecorous, indelicately, inurbane, large, oafish, rank, rough, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, trivial, unaccomplished, unmannerly, vulgar). (various references) | |
Russian | грубый (bad, barbaric, barbarous, bearish, beastly, bestial, blunt, boeotian, boor, boorish, brusque, brutal, brute, brute-force, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, common, crass, crude, curmudgeonly, currish, fresh, fulsome, gross, gross ear, gruff, hard bitten, hardhanded, harsh, heathenish, homespun, horny, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, jazz, larrikin, low down, low-lived, rank, raucous, raw, rawhide, ribald, robust, rough, rough and ready, rude, scratchy, scurrilous, uncivil, uncultivated, unfinished, unhewn, unmannerly, vulgar, woolly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mangupski. (various references) | |
Spanish | rudo (burly, gruff, hard, rude). (various references) | |
Swedish | lymmelaktig (caddish), slyngelaktig (ill-mannered, oafish), knölaktig, drumlig (clumsy, oafish). (various references) | |
Turkish | kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), hoyrat (boorish, flat-footed, ham-fisted, ham-handed, rough, rustic, uncouth, vulgar), hantal (bulky, chubby, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, elephantine, gross, hulking, hulky, lubber, lumbering, lumpish, plodding, ponderous, rude, sesquipedalian, soggy, stodgy, ungainly, ungraceful, unwieldy, yahoo). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vụng về (butter-fingered, clumpish, clumsily, clumsy, gauche, heavy-handed, maladroit, rough-hewn, stern foremost), thô lỗ (beastly, ill-mannered, indelicate, plebeian, snippety, snippy, underbred, ungentle), cục mịch (boorish, hawbuck, joskin). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "loutish": loutishly, loutishness, loutishnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Loutish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eliotish, iltutmish, lauish, leutasch, liebish, Liutizi, loudish, loutisha, loutsh, Lowith, mobutism, rootish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "loutish" (pronounced 'Lout"ish'): Abolish, Admonish, Affamish, Alish, Amateurish, Apish, Aspish, Assish, Astonish, Babish, Baboonish, Balkish, Banish, Bardish, Basquish, Bearish, Beauish, Blackish, Blockish, Bluish, Bluntish, Boarish, Bookish, Boorish, Boyish, Brackish, Brainish, Brinish, Broadish, Brockish, Brownish, Buccaneerish, Buckish, Buffoonish, Bullish, Calvish, Cavalierish, Cherish, Childish, Churlish, Clayish, Clownish, Coldish, Coltish, Coolish, Coyish, Czarish, Dampish, Danish, Dankish. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-i-l-o-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: holist, lithos, thiols. | |
-2 letters: hilts, hilus, hoist, holts, litho, lotus, louis, louts, shout, sloth, south, thiol, thous, toils, tolus. | |
-3 letters: hilt, hist, hits, hols, holt, host, hots, huts, list, lits, litu, lost, loth, loti, lots, lout, lush, lust, oils, oust, outs, shot, shul, shut, silo, silt, sith, slit, slot, soil, soli, soth, soul. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-i-l-o-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: holibuts, uroliths. | |
+2 letters: dishclout, loutishly, lustihood, outwhirls, trochilus, unholiest. | |
+3 letters: dishclouts, haustorial, lighthouse, lustihoods, outlandish, patchoulis, pilothouse, silhouette, slouchiest, sloughiest, touchlines, turophiles. | |
+4 letters: houselights, lighthouses, loutishness, mesothelium, neutrophils, outblushing, outhustling, patchoulies, pilothouses, righteously, silhouetted, silhouettes, southerlies, thiosulfate, thiouracils. | |
+5 letters: anthophilous, coquettishly, doublethinks, foresightful, glutathiones, heliolatrous, holothurians, humiliations, outlandishly, polystichous, silhouetting, silhouettist, thiosulfates, unhistorical, upholsteries, upholstering, urolithiases, urolithiasis. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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