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Loutish

Definition: Loutish

Loutish

Adjective

1. 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: Loutish

Synonyms: boorish (adj), neandertal (adj), neanderthal (adj), oafish (adj), swinish (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Loutish

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Loutish

English words defined with "loutish": boorishNeandertal, neanderthalo.k., oafishswinish. (references)
Specialty definitions using "loutish": Jean Farine. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Loutish

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)95%1980,337
Noun (proper)5%1339,140
                    Total100.00%20N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Loutish

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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Loutish

Derivations

Words beginning with "loutish": loutishly, loutishness, loutishnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Loutish"

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)

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Anagrams: Loutish

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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