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Bluto

Bluto proper noun: a man who is large and muscular in top-heavy proportions, often combined with a comically brutish and aggressive personality.

Proper noun

Bluto

  1. A man who is large and muscular in top-heavy proportions, often combined with a comically brutish and aggressive personality.
    • He was built like Bluto. "Who the hell are you?" he said.1986, Lee K. Abbott, Strangers in paradise, page 38
    • For whatever reason, it'd taken her a little while to get out of the cab when they first got here, and when Chuck introduced me — she stood a full foot shorter than him, a tiny woman next to this Bluto of a man, a knitted green afghan over her shoulders, a white blouse and blue jeans.2008, Bret Lott, Ancient Highway: A Novel, page 152

Bluto meaning in Marathi and Arabic

Bluto in Marathi

the antagonist of Popeye
ब्लूटो blūṭo

Bluto in Arabic

the antagonist of Popeye
بلوتو blūtō

Examples of Bluto in a sentence

  • His pit bull parts thinned out his back end but gave him a Bluto disproportion in his front end.2010, Susan Wilson, One Good Dog, page 21:
  • It wasn't the black loudmouth I'd expected but a Bluto of a man almost filling the entire doorway.2011, Shaun Attwood, chapter 25, in Hard Time: Life with Sheriff Joe Arpaio in America's Toughest Jail:
  • The customers sometimes called him Bluto.2015, Maryann Bouco, chapter 4, in The Last Stand:

Origin of Bluto

Fictional character name for the antagonist of Popeye coined in 1932 by cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar.

Words that rhyme with Bluto

Questions about Bluto

What does Bluto mean?
Bluto means a man who is large and muscular in top-heavy proportions, often combined with a comically brutish and aggressive personality.
What is Bluto in Marathi?
Bluto in Marathi is ब्लूटो (blūṭo). See Bluto meaning in Marathi.
How do you use Bluto in a sentence?
His pit bull parts thinned out his back end but gave him a Bluto disproportion in his front end.
What part of speech is Bluto?
Bluto is a proper noun.

Words near Bluto in the dictionary

  1. Blutah
  2. blutcher
  3. blutchers
  4. Bluth
  5. Bluths
  6. Bluto
  7. blutwurst
  8. blutwursts
  9. BLV
  10. blvd
  11. blvd.

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