Define the word loutish"Loutish" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Loutish \Lout"ish\, a.
Clownish; rude; awkward. "Loutish clown." --Sir P. Sidney. --
Lout"ish*ly, adv. -- Lout"ish*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
"loutish" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
loutish
adj : ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or
appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish
manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband";
"aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude" [syn:
boorish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish, swinish]
"loutish" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "loutish":
all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bumbling,
bungling, butterfingered, caddish, callow, careless, carlish,
churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted,
coarse, countrified, country-born, country-bred, crude, cumbersome,
farmerish, fingers all thumbs, from the sticks, fumbling, gauche,
gawkish, gawky, graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, hayseed,
heavy-handed, hick, hicky, hobnailed, hooliganish, hulking, hulky,
ill-bred, inconsiderate, inelegant, inept, insensitive, inurbane,
left-hand, left-handed, loobyish, louty, lowbred, lubberly,
lumbering, lumpen, lumpish, maladroit, nasty, oafish, offensive,
ponderous, raffish, raw, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rowdyish, rube,
ruffianly, rusty, sloppy, stiff, tactless, uncivilized, uncouth,
uncultivated, uncultured, unfeminine, ungainly, ungenteel,
ungentle, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, unhandy, unladylike,
unpolished, unrefined, unsolicitous, unwieldy, up-country, vulgar,
yokel, yokelish
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