1540s, "awkward fellow, clown, bumpkin," perhaps from a dialectal survival of Middle English louten (v.) "bow down" (c. 1300), from Old English lutan "bow low," from Proto-Germanic *lut- "to bow, bend, stoop" (cognates: Old Norse lutr "stooping," which might also be the source of the modern English word), from PIE *leud- "to lurk" (cognates: Gothic luton "to deceive," Old English lot "deceit), also "to be small" (see little). Non-Germanic cognates probably include Lithuanian liudeti "to mourn;" Old Church Slavonic luditi "to deceive," ludu "foolish." Sense of "cad" is first attested 1857 in British schoolboy slang.
雙語例句
1. He's just an ill-bred lout.
他是個缺乏教養的鄉巴佬。
來自辭典例句
2. He had no training , no skills, he was just a big, bungling , useless lout!
什么也不行, 什么也不會, 自己只是個傻大黑粗的廢物!
來自漢英文學 - 駱駝祥子
3. This lout guards the crypt like a Cerberus.
這個笨蛋象冥府守門狗一樣守著地窖.
來自電影對白
4. Some of the films on TV would scare the lout of adults as well as children.