Lout definition

Etymology 1

Of dialectal origin, cf. Middle English louten "to bow, bend low, stoop over" from Old English lūtan from . Cognate with Old Norse , Gothic . Non-Germanic cognates are probably Old Church Slavonic and Serbo-Croatian .

Noun

Troublemaker, often violent.
A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin.

Etymology 2

lūtan, from Germanic. Cognate with Old Norse , Danish , Norwegian , Swedish luta.

Verb

To bend, bow, stoop.
- 1885: He took the cup in his hand and, louting low, returned his best thanks — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, vol. 1

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