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Loutish describes behaviour that is rude, rough, and badly brought up — the kind of thing a lout would do. A loutish remark talks over someone and makes them small. Loutish manners at a table might mean grabbing, shouting, or laughing at the wrong moment. You can say a loutish young man, but you can also say loutish behaviour, which is useful, because then you are naming the act, not stamping a person forever. It is an , judging word, a little old-fashioned, more at home in British newspapers and novels than in soft everyday talk. Though actually, it is about manners and force, not about being large or loud as such; a quiet person can still be loutish if they are coarse and . It is stronger than and less formal than barbaric. You would use it when you want the listener to feel the ugliness of the behaviour.
粗魯沒教養的(形容行為或態度像莽漢,不一定只用於男人)
組成lout (a rude, rough man) + -ish (having the quality of). Built as lout + -ish, so ‘in the manner of a lout’.
同家族的字
- loutthe noun this is built from
- loutishlythe adverb: in a loutish way
- loutishnessthe noun for the quality
原始詞典資料1 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。
loutishadj/ˈlaʊtɪʃ/
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Resembling a lout (troublemaker or bumpkin).
- He was a loutish fellow, much bent in the shoulders, with leggings, which lacked most of the buttons, over his disreputable breeks.
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。