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Definition: Lout |
LoutNoun1. An awkward stupid person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lout" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Lout Lout is a batch text formatting system and an embedded language by Jeffrey H. Kingston |
Multilingual Slang | Catalan (trinxeraire). (references) |
Slang in 1811 | LOON, or LOUT. A country bumkin, or clown. LOUT. A clumsy stupid fellow. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: LoutSynonyms: clod (n), gawk (n), goon (n), klutz (n), lubber (n), lummox (n), lump (n), oaf (n), stumblebum (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Peasant, countryman, boor, carle, churl; villain, villein; terrae filius; serf, kern, tyke, tike, chuff, ryot, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy; rustic, hayseed, lunkhead, chaw-bacon, tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin, looby, rube, lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot-wallopper, slubberdegullion; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad, curmudgeon. |
Fool | Oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lout |
| English words defined with "lout": Belowt ♦ Chaw bacon ♦ Gaby ♦ Knuff. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lout": Cloten ♦ LOON. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "lout": Belowt. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Lout" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Manx (cock-loft, deck, loft). |
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 | Rude; disgusting; vulgar; crude; burp; awkward; backward; barnyard; boorish; cheap; cloddish; clumsy; coarse; crass; dirty; earthy; filthy; foul; grody; gross; ignorant; ill-bred; indecent; indelicate; inelegant; insensible; lewd; loud; loud-mouthed; lout. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Lout" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.62% of the time. "Lout" is used about 47 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 93.62% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.26% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 47 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "lout" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Lout | Last name | 300 | 25,375 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "lout": clumsy lout ♦ great lout ♦ litter lout. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "lout": litter-lout. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
latex lout | 7 |
chateau le lout | 3 |
lout slide | 3 |
lout | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lout"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | harbut (boor, caddish, churl, discourteous, disrespectful, graceless, indelicate, loutish), gdhe (lubber-head, lug, lummox, lump, lunkhead). (various references) | |
Arabic | المغفل (boob, booby, daw, dullard, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, featherbrain, gaby, gander, gawk, idiot, jackass, lunkhead, moron, mug, mugful, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, noodle, numskull, simpleton, sucker, zany), الجاهل (ignorant), إنحنى بخضوع, إنحنى بإحترام, شخص أخرق (bear, dub, gawky, lubber, lummox, slouch). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хулиган (bully, butch, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, punk, rough, roughneck, rowdy, tearaway, yob), нахакан човек (smarty, smarty-pants), нахален човек (intruder), простак (bounder, buffoon, cad, fellow, hog, oaf, outsider, philistine, savage, schmo, schnook, slob, spoon, twerp, vulgarian), дебелак (boor, oaf). (various references) | |
Czech | nevychovanec (bounder, cad), klacek (bludgeon, bully, club, cudgel, hobbledehoy, lubber, stick), hrubián (boor). (various references) | |
Farsi | نفهمی نشان دادن , ولگردی کردن (Hull, Loaf, Mooch, Tramp, Vagabond), سرفروداوردن (Stoop, Succumb), ادم نادان ونفهم , ادم بی دست وپا (Slouch), ریشخندکردن (Bamboozle, Blarney, Cajole, Coax, Wheedle), بیشعوردانستن . (various references) | |
Finnish | roikale, moukka (boor). (various references) | |
French | voyou (loutish), maladroit, ignorant, dédaigner qn, butor, bête. (various references) | |
German | lümmel (boor, boors, lubbers, oaf, tyke, tykes, Willie). (various references) | |
Greek | άξεστοσ (boor, boorish, crude, raw, rough, uncouth, unpolished, unrefined), αγροίκοσ (boorish, bounder, churl, clownish, curmudgeon, roughneck, rube, rude, rustic, scullion, yokel), αλήτησ (bum, hobo, hoodlum, rapscallion, rascallion, scamp, tramp, vagabond, vagrant). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מטומטם (bird brained, dense, dopey, dullard, gaga, goon, half wit, halfwitted, imbecile, lame brain, muddleheaded, oafish, obtuse, sot, stupid, thickheaded, woodenheaded), בור (crude, hole, ignorant, illiterate, uncultivated, unlettered). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fajankó (boob, booby, bumpkin, cad, duffer, dummy, dunce, goof, goofy, goose, hawbuck, hick, juggins, lob, loon, lummox, lunkhead, numb-skull, numskull, oaf, pumpkin-head, simple sammy), faragatlan fickó (lubber). (various references) | |
Indonesian | orang dusun (backwoodsman, hick). (various references) | |
Italian | zoticone (boor, bumpkin, clodhopper, lubber, oaf), villano (caddish, churlish, impolite, loutish, rude, surly, villein, yokel), tanghero (lubbers). (various references) | |
Manx | gowran (clown). (various references) | |
Norwegian | slamp. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | outlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | palhaço (antic, buffoon, clown, joker, merry andrew, mime, mountebank, scaramouch), indivíduo grosseiro (cad, chaw-bacon, mucker), 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, loutish, low-bred, lubber, lubberly, maladroit, muff, shiftless, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unskilful, unwieldy, wooden), bobo (buffoon, clown, droll, fool, goof, gull, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, jerk, jester, merry andrew, ninny, ninny-hammer, pantaloon, scaramouch, silly, stupid, zany). (various references) | |
Romanian | mocofan (blockhead, clodhopper, dolt, oaf), bãdãran (bearish, boor, bumpkin, cad, churl, churlish, clown, curmudgeon, hawbuck, hind, oaf, peasant, rough, yokel). (various references) | |
Russian | хам (cad, mucker, twerp, tyke), неуклюжий человек (lubber), неуклюжий (bulky, bumbling, cack-handed, chuckle, cloddish, clumsy, clunky, cubbish, gangly, gawky, goon, hamfisted, ham-fisted, heavy-handed, hulking, left handed, lubberly, maladroit, oafish, splay, two-fisted, uncouth, ungainly, unhandy, unskilful, unwieldy), неотесанный человек (joskin, redneck), деревенщина (bumpkin, churl, joskin, loon, redneck, rube, yahoo, yokel). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mangup (hooligan, idler, reveler, rowdy, teddy boy), glupan (blockhead, bonehead, boob, booby, clod-poll, coot, dimwit, dope, driveler, driveller, dunce, dunderhead, fathead, fat-head, gander, goof, jerk, loon, lug, lummox, lunkhead, mutton head, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, pin head, pinhead, pumpkin-head, thickhead, tomfool, twit). (various references) | |
Spanish | patán (backwoodsman, boor, bumpkin, churl, clod, clodhopper, clown, country bumpkin, duffer, loon, mucker, oaf, rube, yokel). (various references) | |
Swedish | tölp (boor, churl, clod, clodhopper, clodpoll, clown, gawk, lubber, lummox, yokel), drummel (ape, blunderhead, boob, booby, churl, clod, clodpoll, clown, gawk, hobbledehoy, lubber, lummox, oaf, swab). (various references) | |
Thai | โค้งคำนับ, คนที่มีมารยาททราม, "ูถูก (belittle). (various references) | |
Turkish | kaba adam (backwoodsman, bear, boor, cad, caveman, churl, clown, mucker, yahoo), hantal tip (klutz), ayı tip. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | незграбна людина (blimp, gawk, goon, laggard, oaf, stiff). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người vụng về (booby, bumpkin, butter-fingers, fumbler, lubber, muff, swabber, swobber), người thô lỗ (goth), người cục mịch (boor). (various references) | |
Welsh | llabwst (lubber). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lout": louted, louting, loutish, loutishly, loutishness, loutishnesses, louts. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "lout": bailout, breechclout, clout, dishclout, fallout, flout, glout, pullout, rollout, sellout. (additional references) | |
Words containing "lout": bailouts, breechclouts, clouted, clouter, clouters, clouting, clouts, dishclouts, fallouts, flouted, flouter, flouters, flouting, flouts, glouted, glouting, glouts, pullouts, rollouts, sellouts, veloute, veloutes. (additional references) | |
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"Lout" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alokut, alout, blout, klooit, laut, lautt, Lbut, leut, litu, liut, liuti, liuto, Loat, loato, Locurto, loetz, lofu, loit, lont, lopt, loqui, Lort, Lotum, lou, Loua, loub, louch, louf, loug, louh, Loum, loun, loust, Loutf, louth, louty, louv, Loux, louz, lowt, loxu, Luit, luoc, luog, Luoi, luoshu, luow, lut, luto, luu, luut, olat, olet, olit, olup, vout. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tolu. | |
| Words within the letters "l-o-t-u" | |
-1 letter: lot, out. | |
-2 letters: lo, to, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "l-o-t-u" | |
+1 letter: clout, flout, glout, lotus, louts, moult, poult, tolus. | |
+2 letters: brulot, clouts, flouts, glouts, layout, locust, loquat, louted, moults, occult, outfly, outlaw, outlay, outlet, outlie, pluton, potful, poults, putlog, solute, sublot, toluic, toluid, toluol, toluyl, topful, torula, tousle, touzle, tufoli, tupelo, ultimo, unbolt, untold, volute. | |
+3 letters: aliquot, bailout, blowout, boatful, boletus, botulin, brulots, butanol, cloture, clouted, clouter, consult, couldst, coulter, couplet, courtly, culotte, dilutor, doublet, eelpout, elution, evolute, fallout, floruit, flouted, flouter, foldout, foulest, glouted, gluepot, glutton, goutily, holdout, holibut, layouts, linocut, locknut, lockout, locusta, locusts, lookout, loquats, lotuses, loudest, louting, loutish, luteous, moulted, moulter, mulatto, noctule, occults, octuple, octuply, oculist, opulent, outbawl, outbulk, outduel, outfall, outfeel, outfelt, outflew, outflow, outfool, outglow, outhaul, outhowl, outkill, outlaid, outlain, outland, outlast, outlaws, outlays, outleap, outlets, outlier, outlies, outline, outlive, outlook, outlove, outplan, outplay, outplod, outplot, outpoll, outpull, outroll, outsail, outsell, outsold, outsole, outsulk, outtalk, outtell, outtold, outwalk, outwile, outwill, outyell, outyelp, ovulate, plutons, pollute, potfuls, potluck, poulter, poultry, poutful, pullout, putlogs, rollout, sellout, slipout, solutes, stoutly, sublots, subplot, tabouli, talcous, toilful, toluate, toluene, toluide, toluids, toluole, toluols, toluyls, topfull, torulae, torulas, toughly, tousled, tousles, touzled, touzles, troilus, trouble, tumoral, tupelos, turmoil, unbolts, urolith, veloute, voluted, volutes, volutin, walkout, wouldst. | |
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