Don't any o' you lads know whut 's become o' the drunken lout?

They deceived and maddened her half- drunken lout of a husband.

Take yourself off, you drunken lout, you!

Not a drunken brawl, as Durand thinks; it was a drunken lout's practical joke, for which he has suffered.

Only a few pages further on, stories about him, reported by his bookmaker friend Victor Chandler, show him behaving like a foul-mouthed drunken lout.

He was dazedly conscious of being rudely shoved once or twice, and even heard the epithet " drunken lout" from one who had run against him.

' Drunken lout!' the gaudily dressed floozy exclaimed.

But the fans, who for so long were unjustly branded as drunken louts whose behaviour was the real cause of the disaster, were entirely exonerated.

Well, rum could turn fellows into nasty drunken louts like Barnes, but Mother had sometimes administered a bit of it to me for medicinal purposes.

"Drive these drunken louts away!"

'I was a drunken lout who ran away from everything and everybody, from responsibility for others, and most of all from myself.