OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14669

lout

/laʊt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
barra brava • gamberro • salvaje
A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.
But the lout looked only to his market, and was not easily repulsed. “He’s there, I tell you,” he persisted. “And for threepence I’ll get you to see him. Come on, your honour! It’s…
You see louts fresh from school kicking grey-haired servants.
zopenca • zopenco
A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin.
The faire Pamela, whose noble hart I finde doth greatly disdaine, that the trust of her vertue is reposed in such a louts hands, as Dametas, had yet to shew an obedience, taken on…
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