It is questionable, however, whether the word ulug (lout) has dropped out of current Arabic usage.

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She sheds light on her family and on her marriage to Feroze Gandhi, a charismatic lout.

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Mr Tyers and his son, a Royal Marine, made a citizen's arrest and drove the lout to the local police station.

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Does it diminish their music to know that Frank Sinatra could be a lout and that Miles Davis used his fists on women?

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Bateman, with the lout inside him, has the funniest bits, picking up two infants and dropping them on a kitchen counter like sacks of potatoes.

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We can react with blinding speed, literally before we can think, to duck a punch that some drunken lout throws in our direction, or to hop out of the way of an oncoming object.

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