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A lout is a man who behaves in a rough, rude way — loud, with other people’s feelings, sometimes ready to shove or shout. You use it when someone’s manners are ugly, not when they have simply made a small mistake. Newspapers in Britain have long talked about a lager lout: a young man who drinks too much and then causes trouble in the street. The word feels a little old and a little . It is not a polite label, and it is aimed more at men than at women; calling a woman a lout sounds odd. Though actually, people also stretch it. A teenager who puts his feet on the seat and talks over everyone might be called a lout even if he is not violent, just coarse. It is informal English, stronger than rude, weaker and more everyday than brute. You would not put it in a careful school essay unless you were quoting someone.
莽漢、粗魯沒教養的男人（帶鄙夷；英式報紙常說 lager lout 指酒後鬧事的年輕人）
組成Of dialect origin. It likely comes from Middle English louten, ‘to bow, bend low, stoop’, from Old English lūtan, going back to Proto-Germanic *lūtaną ‘to bow down’. Another path is Middle English louten ‘to hide, lurk’, from Old English lūtian. Scholars are not sure which story is the right one. Old Norse lútr meant ‘stooping’.
同家族的字
- loutishthe adjective: behaving like a lout
- loutishlythe adverb: in a loutish way
- loutishnessthe noun for that rude, rough quality
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
loutnoun詞源 1/laʊt/
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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 many a Westminster election I’ve seen, and beer running, from Mr. Fox,[…]when maybe it’s your honour’s going to stand! Anyway, it’s, Down with the mongers!”
- You see louts fresh from school kicking grey-haired servants.
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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 a shepeardish apparell[…]
- Sebaſtian, I haue entertained thee, / Partly that I haue neede of ſuch a youth, / That can with ſome diſcretion doe my buſineſſe: / For ’tis no truſting to yond fooliſh Lowt;
loutverb詞源 1/laʊt/
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obsoleteTo treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint.
- Renowned Talbot doth expect my ayde, / And I am lowted by a Traitor Villaine, / And cannot helpe the noble Cheualier:[…]
loutverb詞源 2/laʊt/
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archaicTo bend, bow, stoop.
- He faire the knight ſaluted, louting low, / Who faire him quited, as that courteous was[…].
- And the priest devoutly crossed himself, and turned and louted to the alter.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。