Also 6–7 lowt(e. [? f. LOUT sb.1]
1. trans. To treat with contumely, mock. (Cf. FLOUT v.) Also, to lout (a person) out of (something). Obs.
c. 1530. Redford, Play Wit & Sci. (1848), 41. So mokte, so lowted, so made a sot!
a. 1553. Udall, Royster D., III. iii. (Arb.), 44. He is louted and laughed to skorne, For the veriest dolte that euer was borne.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 258 b. Here is no want of any thing nowe, but of some gyering Gnato, which may lowt this Thraso out of hys paynted coat.
1591. Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., IV. iii. 13. I am lowted by a Traitor Villaine, And cannot helpe the noble Cheualier.
1591. Harington, Orl. Fur., XII. xxii. She will finde some sleight and pretie shift, With her accustom’d coynes him to lout.
c. 1650. Eger & Grine, 672, in Furnivall, Percy Folio, I. 375. Eger … lay and heard her lowte him like a knave.
2. intr. To act as a lout; to loll about.
1807. W. Irving, Salmag., No. 3 (1811), I. 59. Those sprigs of the ton … Who lounge, and who lout, and who booby about, No knowledge within, and no manners without.
