The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue dates from 1811 and this is probably the only full, uncensored and searchable version of this dictionary on the internet. All the original crudities have been restored and it offers an interesting perspective on Common English from the time of the Regency and Jane Austen.

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Entries releated to LOUT

 

BOOBY, or DOG BOOBY		An awkward lout, clodhopper, or country fellow. See CLODHOPPER and LOUT. A bitch booby; a country wench.
CLOUT		A blow. I'll give you a clout on your jolly nob; I'll give you a blow on your head. It also means a handkerchief. Any pocket handkerchief except a silk one.
CLOUTED SHOON		Shoes tipped with iron.
CLOUTING LAY		Picking pockets of handkerchiefs.
CLOY		To steal. To cloy the clout; to steal the handkerchief. To cloy the lour; to steal money.
COT, or QUOT		A man who meddles with women's household business, particularly in the kitchen. The punishment commonly inflicted on a quot, is pinning a greasy dishclout to the skirts of his coat.
DISHCLOUT		A dirty, greasy woman. He has made a napkin of his dishclout; a saying of one who has married his cook maid. To pin a dishclout to a man's tail; a punishment often threatened by the female servants in a kitchen, to a man who pries too minutely into the secrets of that place.
DRAW		To take any thing from a pocket. To draw a swell of a clout. To pick a gentleman's pocket of a handkerchief. To draw the long bow; to tell lies.
FLOUT		To jeer, to ridicule.
HIGH SHOON, or CLOUTED SHOON		A country clown.
HOBNAIL		A country clodhopper: from the shoes of country farmers and ploughmen being commonly stuck full of hob-nails, and even often clouted, or tipped with iron. The Devil ran over his face with hobnails in his shoes; said of one pitted With the small pox.
HULKY, or HULKING		A great hulky fellow; an over-grown clumsy lout, or fellow.
LOON, or LOUT		A country bumkin, or clown.
LOUT		A clumsy stupid fellow.
RUM CLOUT		A fine silk, cambric, or holland handkerchief.
RUM WIPER		See RUM CLOUT.
YANKEY, or YANKEY DOODLE		A booby, or country lout: a name given to the New England men in North America. A general appellation for an American.