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.
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