Meaning & use
Galloot
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An awkward, clumsy, or uncouth person, especially a large man; used informally, often with mild affection.
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Get out of the doorway, you big galloot, and let us through.
He was a friendly galloot who never quite fit into his oversized suit.
A note on using this word
A variant spelling of 'galoot'; the word's exact origin is uncertain but it entered English slang through nineteenth-century sailors' and soldiers' talk.
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