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lout
What does lout mean?
lout (noun): an awkward stupid person.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce lout?
/laʊt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does lout come from?
Of dialectal origin, likely derived from Middle English louten (“to bow, bend low, stoop over”), from Old English lūtan (“to bow, bend forward, stoop”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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