loutish

loutish
lout·ish

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  • Loutish — Lout ish, a. Clownish; rude; awkward. Loutish clown. Sir P. Sidney. {Lout ish*ly}, adv. {Lout ish*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • loutish — index opaque, provincial, uncouth Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • loutish — 1550s, from LOUT (Cf. lout) + ISH (Cf. ish). Related: Loutishly; loutishness …   Etymology dictionary

  • loutish — boorish, churlish, clownish (see under BOOR) Analogous words: clumsy, gauche, maladroit, inept, *awkward: burly, brawny, husky, *muscular: *rude, rough, crude, raw, callow, green, uncouth …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • loutish — [adj] boorish bad mannered, barbaric, bearish, bungling, cantankerous, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping*, clownish, clumsy, coarse, dense, doltish, gross*, gruff, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, loud, oafish, ornery, rough, rude, rustic, swinish …   New thesaurus

  • loutish — [[t]la͟ʊtɪʃ[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n (disapproval) If you describe a man or a boy as loutish, you are critical of them because their behaviour is impolite and aggressive. I was appalled by the loutish behaviour …   English dictionary

  • loutish — lout ► NOUN ▪ an uncouth or aggressive man or boy. DERIVATIVES loutish adjective. ORIGIN perhaps from archaic lout «to bow down» …   English terms dictionary

  • loutish — adjective ill mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance was boorish and insensitive the loutish manners of a bully her stupid oafish husband aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude • Syn: ↑boorish, ↑neanderthal, ↑nean …   Useful english dictionary

  • loutish — adjective Date: 1542 resembling or befitting a lout Synonyms: see boorish • loutishly adverb • loutishness noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • loutish — loutishly, adv. loutishness, n. /low tish/, adj. like or characteristic of a lout; awkward; clumsy; boorish. [1545 55; LOUT1 + ISH1] Syn. churlish, uncouth, vulgar, coarse. * * * …   Universalium

  • loutish — adjective Resembling a lout. Syn: yobbish …   Wiktionary

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