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English
Etymology
From loutish + -ness.
Noun
loutishness (countable and uncountable, plural loutishnesses)
- The state or quality of being loutish, of behaving like a lout.
- 1932-34, Samuel Beckett, "Gnome", Dublin Magazine
- 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:True, this is hardly the drink to inspire “Girls Gone Wild” loutishness.
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