galoot
English
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
galoot (plural galoots)
- (derogatory) A clumsy or uncouth person.
- 1901, Frank Norris, The Octopus, published 2008, page 293:
- “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.”
- 1901, Winston Churchill, The Crisis, published 2008, page 190:
- “Now there was an ugly galoot whose name isn’t worth mentioning. […] ”
- 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: clodhopper, lout, lummox, oaf
Translations
clumsy or uncouth person
|
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Arabic
- English terms derived from Arabic
- English terms borrowed from Egyptian Arabic
- English terms derived from Egyptian Arabic
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/uːt
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English derogatory terms
- English terms with quotations