From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishloutlout /laʊt/ noun [countable] VIOLENTRUDE/IMPOLITEa rude violent man SYN yob —loutish adjective loutish behaviour —loutishly adverb —loutishness noun [uncountable] → lager lout
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lout• Only a lout would treat a woman that way.• What a clumsy lout he was!• The resulting fictionalised account is a faithful portrait of a musical genius, drunken lout, spiritual healer, liar and clown.• And I am not talking about the drunken louts who beat their wives to death in a cellar.• In Ursula's humble opinion, the ice might start to thaw if you stop being a brutish, insensitive lout.• What about lager louts and football hooligans?• We stood at the bar being jostled by some thick-necked lager louts.• A few foul-mouthed louts in the crowd were shouting racist abuse.• Sons of louts grappled with the coffin in vain; they could neither cram it in nor twist it out.• The young louts roam the neighbourhood.Origin lout (1500-1600) Perhaps from Old Norse lutr “bent down” 