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galoot

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6 lettersPronunciation /ɡəˈluːt/Part of speech nounSorted aglootStarts with GEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a disreputable or clumsy man

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • “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.[…]”
  • “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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