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louty

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Etymology

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From lout +‎ -y.

Adjective

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louty (comparative more louty, superlative most louty)

  1. (rare) loutish
    • 2007 July 1, Richard B. Woodward, “Armchair Traveler”, in New York Times[1]:
      The country’s “self-serving and bogus view of history,” which pities the rest of the world for its disorder, hides what he sees as “the lumpen and louty, coarse, unsubtle, beady-eyed, beefy-bummed herd of England.”