LOUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lout mean? 

• LOUT (noun)
  The noun LOUT has 1 sense:

1. an awkward stupid person

  Familiarity information: LOUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An awkward stupid person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

clod; gawk; goon; lout; lubber; lummox; lump; oaf; stumblebum

Hypernyms ("lout" is a kind of...):

clumsy person (a person with poor motor coordination)

 Context examples 

The raw, stumbling lout was gone.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It would be better to be this poor Peggotty, or his lout of a nephew, he said, getting up and leaning moodily against the chimney-piece, with his face towards the fire, than to be myself, twenty times richer and twenty times wiser, and be the torment to myself that I have been, in this Devil's bark of a boat, within the last half-hour!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Peter Karsdale, who was but a common country lout newly brought over, with the English fleas still hopping under his doublet, laid his great hands upon the Sieur Amaury de Chatonville, who owns half Picardy, and had five thousand crowns out of him, with his horse and harness.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Only for a flashing moment did she see this, then she saw the lout returned, and she laughed at the whim of her fancy.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She did not remember the lout, nor the imprisoned soul, nor the man who had stared at her in all masculineness and delighted and frightened her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)