different between aout vs lout

English

Preposition

aout

1. (rare) Eye dialect spelling of out.
   • 1895, Harry Jones, Fifty Years: Or, Dead Leaves and Living Seeds, page 144

     ... and aout he come rasher nor iver, knockin' here and knockin' there, tell you couldn't hardly sleep for he.

   • 1919, Thomas Burke, Out and about London, page 115

     Git aout, else I'll split yer faice !

   • 1936, H.P. Lovecraft, "Shadow over Innsmouth":

     Ye see, they was able to live both in ant aout o' water–what they call amphibians, I guess.

Anagrams

• Auto, Auto., auto, auto-, auto., outa

French

Noun

aout m (plural aouts)

1. Post-1990 spelling of août.

Further reading

• “aout” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /l??t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Etymology 1

Of dialectal origin, likely from Middle English louten (“to bow, bend low, stoop over”) from Old English lutian from Proto-Germanic *lut?n?. Cognate with Old Norse lútr (“stooping”), Gothic ???????????????????? (lut?n, “to deceive”). Non-Germanic cognates are probably Old Church Slavonic ??????? (luditi, “to deceive”), Serbo-Croatian lud and Albanian lut (“to beg, pray”).

Noun

lout (plural louts)

1. A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:troublemaker

2. A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bumpkin

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

lout (third-person singular simple present louts, present participle louting, simple past and past participle louted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint.

Etymology 2

From Middle English louten, from Old English l?tan, from Proto-Germanic *l?tan?. Cognate with Old Norse lúta, Danish lude (“to bend”), Norwegian lute (“stoop”), Swedish luta.

Verb

lout (third-person singular simple present louts, present participle louting, simple past and past participle louted)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To bend, bow, stoop.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:

     He faire the knight saluted, louting low, / Who faire him quited, as that courteous was [...].

   • 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 [...].

References

Anagrams

• Toul, tolu, ulto