Galoot

//ɡəˈluːt// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A clumsy or uncouth person. derogatory

    "“I talk like a galoot when I get talking to feemale^([sic]) girls and I can’t lay my tongue to anything that sounds right.”"

  2. 2
    a disreputable or clumsy man wordnet

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airheadassholeblokeboneheadboobbooby

Example

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"Stop knocking things over, you big galoot!"

Etymology

From Quranic Arabic جالُوت (jālūt, pronounced galūt in Egyptian Arabic), proper name equivalent to English Goliath, giant warrior of the ancient Philistine ethnicity; cf. connotations of derogatory uses of English Philistine. Doublet of goliath.

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