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galoot

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ga·loot also gal·loot  (g-lt)
n. Slang
A person, especially a clumsy or uncouth one.
[Origin unknown.]
galoot, galloot [gəˈluːt]
n
Slang chiefly US a clumsy or uncouth person
[of unknown origin]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.galoot - a disreputable or clumsy man
adult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"
Translations
galoot [gəˈluːt] N (esp US) → zoquete mf


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Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping, because they're most always doing it on a raft; you'd see the axe flash and come down -- you don't hear nothing; you see that axe go up again, and by the time it's above the man's head then you hear the K'CHUNK
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
"Now you Eastern galoots won't believe anything against the yellow devils," he suddenly flamed out with an appearance of earnestness not altogether convincing, "but I tell you that Chink was the perversest scoundrel outside San Francisco.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
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