From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Loutish \Lout"ish\, adjective Clownish; rude; awkward. ''Loutish clown.'' --Sir P. Sidney. -- {Lout"ish*ly}, adverb -- {Lout"ish*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: 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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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