galoot

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
9
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ɡəˈluːt/

Definition of galoot

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (derogatory)A clumsy or uncouth person.
    ““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.””
    ““Now there was an ugly galoot whose name isn’t worth mentioning.[…]””
    “On TV and in movies and magazine ads, the image of fathers over the past generation evolved from the stern, sturdy father who knew best to a helpless Homer Simpson, or some ham-handed galoot confounded by the prospect of changing a diaper.”
    ““So if someone does something I do not agree with, I could call him a galoot and it would be okay?” “Something like that, if you were friends.” “Are galoots always men?””

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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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