lout

noun
🔊/laʊt/
🔊/laʊt/
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  1. a man or boy who behaves in a rude and aggressive way举止粗野的男人(或男孩) synonym yob
    • We were woken by a group of drunken louts singing in the street outside.一群醉汉在外面的街道上唱歌,使我们惊醒。
    • He claimed that he had been abused by drunken teenage louts.他声称遭到一群醉酒的无礼少年的辱骂。
    see also lager lout, litter lout
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryLout is used after these nouns:
    • litter
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    Word Originmid 16th cent.: perhaps from archaic lout ‘to bow down’, of Germanic origin.