Galoot

Full definition of galoot

Noun

1. (derogatory, ) A clumsy or uncouth person.
• 1901, Frank Norris, , 2008, page 293,"I talk like a galoot when I get talking to feemale girls and I can't lay my tongue to anything that sounds right."
• 1901, Winston Churchill (novelist), , 2008, page 190,"Now there was an ugly galoot whose name isn't worth mentioning...."
• 1993, Time (magazine), Volume 141, Issues 18-26, page 53,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.
• 2012, John C. Gallagher, The Blood-Dimmed Tide Is Loosed, page 113,“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?”

Synonyms

• (clumsy or uncouth person) lout, oaf