Galoot
[guh-loot] /gəˈlut/
noun, Slang.
1.
an awkward, eccentric, or foolish person.
/ɡəˈluːt/
noun
1.
(slang, mainly US) a clumsy or uncouth person
n.
“awkward or boorish man,” 1812, nautical, “raw recruit, green hand,” apparently originally a sailor’s contemptuous word for soldiers or marines, of uncertain origin. “Dictionary of American Slang” proposes galut, Sierra Leone creole form of Spanish galeoto “galley slave.”
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