galoot
IPA: gʌɫˈut
noun
- (derogatory) A clumsy or uncouth person.
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Examples of "galoot" in Sentences
- This big galoot looks more fitting for a mini-boss role.
- Nowadays, some use galoot meaning A kind of likable oaf .
- “Bill, would you ask that big galoot to get off of Misty?”
- In egyptian at least this would become Galut, pronounced Galoot.
- I miss that big galoot and his empty-eyed sociopathic sidekick Franky.
- I just want to be a cosmic cowboy, a supernatural country rockin' galoot.
- So in common usage, a galoot is someone who doesn't fit into the community.
- You're the kind of galoot that ought never to git out of sight of a railroad.
- That young galoot I spoke to first had me written off the minute I opened my mouth.
- And when some twittering galoot busy with a handheld whatever is about to crash into you, whack him over the head with the rolled-up newspaper!
- PSG rested a few of their main players and handed a debut to former Liverpool galoot Momo Sissoko, whose performance, I see, was described by various French journals today as "catastrophic".
- Bill was admiring his new pants -- he boasted of having bought them for three dollars, and pointed out that Milt had been a "galoot" to spend ten dollars for shoes -- that some one knocked at the door.
- While it's probably true that the word "galoot" derived from a slur for African galley slaves, I would see it as ungracious and pedantic to bring this up with the implication that the person so informed must avoid the term for fear of transgressing the bounds of tolerance and responsibility.
- "I wanted the chance to meet Roy Hodgson privately and having done so, I'm very impressed with his plans for the future," added the England captain, who, in fairness, had already moved to dampen speculation linking him with moves to the likes of Real Madrid ... by performing like an incorrigible galoot at the World Cup.