Definition of "louting" [louting]

• Present participle of lout. (verb)

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• "Here the children separated, and ran off to their scattered homes, dropping grateful bob-curtsies to the last -- "louting," as they called it in their Forest dialect."
• "The lord and master louting low before his thrallèd slave."
• "He took the cup in his hand and, louting low, returned his best thanks and improvised: —"