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Lummox

//ˈlʌməks// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A clumsy, stupid person; an awkward bungler. informal

    "You've broken the plates, you great lummox!"

  2. 2
    an awkward stupid person wordnet

Etymology

Unknown. First attested in 1825 in East Anglian slang. Perhaps from "dumb ox", influenced by lumbering; or from or cognate to dialectal verb lummock (“move about heavily or clumsily”), itself a word of uncertain origin.

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