lout
noun/laʊt/
/laʊt/
- a man or boy who behaves in a rude and aggressive way synonym yob
- We were woken by a group of drunken louts singing in the street outside.
- He claimed that he had been abused by some teenage louts.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryLout is used after these nouns:- litter
Word Originmid 16th cent.: perhaps from archaic lout ‘to bow down’, of Germanic origin.Want to learn more?
Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.
Check pronunciation:
lout