loutishness
English
Etymology
Noun
loutishness (countable and uncountable, plural loutishnesses)
- The state or quality of being loutish, of behaving like a lout.
- Samuel Beckett, Gnome
- Spend the years of learning squandering / Courage for the years of wandering / Through a world politely turning / From the loutishness of learning.
- 2007 February 11, Jonathan Miles, “Saints and Sinners Unite”, in New York Times[1]:
- True, this is hardly the drink to inspire “Girls Gone Wild” loutishness.
- Samuel Beckett, Gnome
Translations
being loutish
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