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Galoot

//ɡəˈluːt// noun

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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

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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