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louty

louty adjective: loutish.

Adjective

louty (comparative more louty, superlative most louty)

  1. (rare) loutish
    • 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.”2007 July 1, Richard B. Woodward, “Armchair Traveler”, in New York Times

Forms of louty

comparativemore louty
superlativemost louty

Origin of louty

From lout + -y.

Questions about louty

What does louty mean?
Louty means loutish.
What part of speech is louty?
Louty is an adjective.

Words near louty in the dictionary

  1. Louto
  2. loutrophoroi
  3. loutrophoros
  4. louts
  5. loutsome
  6. louty
  7. loutza
  8. Loutzenhiser
  9. Loutzenhisers
  10. Louvain
  11. Louvain-la-Neuve

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