Lout

Noun

 * 1) Troublemaker, often violent.
 * 2) A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:troublemaker

Related terms

 * lager lout

Verb

 * 1)  To bend, bow, stoop.
 * 2) *1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:
 * He faire the knight saluted, louting low, / Who faire him quited, as that courteous was [...].
 * 1) *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 [...].

Thesaurus
Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, babe, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, boor, botcher, bounder, bourgeois, bucolic, bumbler, bumpkin, bungler, cad, child, child of nature, churl, clod, clodhopper, clodknocker, clot, clown, country bumpkin, deride, dolt, dove, dupe, epicier, farmer, fumbler, gawk, gawky, gowk, groundling, guttersnipe, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, infant, ingenue, innocent, klutz, lamb, lobster, looby, low fellow, lubber, lummox, lump, mere child, mock, mucker, noble savage, nouveau riche, oaf, ox, palooka, parvenu, peasant, quiz, rally, razz, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rube, ruffian, rustic, scout, simple soul, slouch, slubberer, taunt, twit, unsophisticate, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yokel

Etymology 1
Of dialectal origin, compare Middle English louten "to bow, bend low, stoop over" from Old English lūtan from. Cognate with Old Norse lútr:, Gothic 𐌻𐌿𐍄𐌾𐌽:. Non-Germanic cognates are probably Old Church Slavonic лоудити: and Serbo-Croatian луд:.

Etymology 2
lūtan, from Germanic. Cognate with Old Norse lúta:, Danish lude:, Norwegian lute:, Swedish luta.

Noun

 * French:
 * Hindi: गुंडा
 * Italian:, ,  ,


 * Russian: хулиган
 * Scottish Gaelic: burraidh
 * Spanish: salvaje, gamberro , barra brava


 * French:
 * Italian:, ,  ,


 * Spanish: zopenco, zopenca