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louting

louting is the present participle and gerund of lout.

Meaning of lout

Verb (1)

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.
    • Renowned Talbot doth expect my ayde, / And I am lowted by a Traitor Villaine, / And cannot helpe the noble Cheualier:[…]1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Verb (2)

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

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To bend, bow, stoop.
    • He faire the knight ſaluted, louting low, / Who faire him quited, as that courteous was[…].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 11

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Questions about louting

What is louting the present participle and gerund of?
Louting is the present participle and gerund of lout.

Words near louting in the dictionary

  1. loutery
  2. Louth
  3. Louth Park
  4. Louthan
  5. Louthans
  6. louting
  7. loutish
  8. loutishly
  9. loutishness
  10. loutishnesses
  11. Louto

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