different between loun vs lout

English

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain. Compare Scots lounder (“to deal heavy blows on, thrash”).

Verb

loun (third-person singular simple present louns, present participle louning, simple past and past participle louned)

1. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Northern England) To beat; thrash.

Etymology 2

From either Scots loon (“boy, lad”) or Middle Dutch loen (“fool, lout”).

Noun

loun (plural louns)

1. (Ulster) boy, youth

Anagrams

• ulno-

Luxembourgish

Verb

loun

1. second-person singular imperative of lounen

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /l??t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Etymology 1

Of dialectal origin, likely from Middle English louten (“to bow, bend low, stoop over”) from Old English lutian from Proto-Germanic *lut?n?. Cognate with Old Norse lútr (“stooping”), Gothic ???????????????????? (lut?n, “to deceive”). Non-Germanic cognates are probably Old Church Slavonic ??????? (luditi, “to deceive”), Serbo-Croatian lud and Albanian lut (“to beg, pray”).

Noun

lout (plural louts)

1. A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:troublemaker

2. A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bumpkin

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

lout (third-person singular simple present louts, present participle louting, simple past and past participle louted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint.

Etymology 2

From Middle English louten, from Old English l?tan, from Proto-Germanic *l?tan?. Cognate with Old Norse lúta, Danish lude (“to bend”), Norwegian lute (“stoop”), Swedish luta.

Verb

lout (third-person singular simple present louts, present participle louting, simple past and past participle louted)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To bend, bow, stoop.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:

     He faire the knight saluted, louting low, / Who faire him quited, as that courteous was [...].

   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, vol. 1:

     He took the cup in his hand and, louting low, returned his best thanks [...].

References

Anagrams

• Toul, tolu, ulto