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delinquent
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French délinquant, ultimately from Latin delinquens, present participle of delinquo.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??l??kw?nt/
Adjective
delinquent (comparative more delinquent, superlative most delinquent)
- Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
- Fred is delinquent in making his car payment.
- The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments.
- Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
Synonyms
- (late or failing to pay a debt): defaulting
Derived terms
- delinquency
- juvenile delinquent
- moral delinquent
Translations
Noun
delinquent (plural delinquents)
- One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.
- A person who has not paid his or her debts.
- (obsolete, derogatory) A term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642-1645. Charles I was known as the chief delinquent.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:criminal
Translations
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin d?linquens.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?de?.li?k??nt/, /?de?.l???k??nt/
- Hyphenation: de?lin?quent
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
delinquent m (plural delinquenten, diminutive delinquentje n)
- criminal
- Synonyms: crimineel, misdadiger
Related terms
- delinquant (obsolete)
Descendants
- Afrikaans: delinkwent
Latin
Verb
d?linquent
- third-person plural future active indicative of d?linqu?
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lout
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)
- A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:troublemaker
- 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)
- (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)
- (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 [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:
References
Anagrams
- Toul, tolu, ulto
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