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Definition of lout noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

lout

noun
 
/laʊt/
 
/laʊt/
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  1. 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.
    see also lager lout, litter lout
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryLout is used after these nouns:
    • litter
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    Word Originmid 16th cent.: perhaps from archaic lout ‘to bow down’, of Germanic origin.
See lout in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

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