a. [f. LOUT sb.1 + -ISH.] Characteristic of a lout, clumsy, clownish, lubberly.
a. 1553. Udall, Royster D., III. i. (Arb.), 39. Rather than with such a loutishe dolte to marie.
1590. Nashe, Pasquil’s Apol., I. D b. What a lazie, lowtish kind of argument is this.
1616. R. C., Times’ Whistle, v. 1755. Helottes … which wer their slaves, A sort of loutish abject-minded knaves.
1821. Scott, Kenilw., xiii. His loutish savage-looking demeanour.
1900. F. T. Bullen, With Christ at Sea, iii. 57. The big loutish boy who was my colleague.
Hence Loutishly adv., Loutishness.
a. 1553. Udall, Royster D., III. v. (Arb.), 55. He disgraced hym selfe, his loutishnesse is suche.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Lourdement, loutishlye.
1843. in Freeman’ Jrnl., 1 April, 4/2. They seem content to sit down to whine their Jeremiads over the ruin of Ireland’s lost trade, and loutishly wait until the river runs by.
1840. Adams Sentinel, 13 April, 1/2. The high and boisterous flow of spirits … that keeps up during a party or visit, and then sinks down to absolute loutishness, is … a sure sign of a coarse and vulgar nature.
1871. Miss Mulock, Fair France, 158. The … small, wiry, active frame was merged into a larger-limbed, honest loutishness.
1888. Mrs. H. Ward, R. Elsmere, 489. The Arabs outside made loutishly flattering remarks.
