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galoot

/ɡəˈluːt/

galoot noun: a clumsy or uncouth person.

Noun

galoot (plural galoots)

  1. (derogatory) A clumsy or uncouth person.
    • “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, Frank Norris, The Octopus, published 2008, page 293
    • “Now there was an ugly galoot whose name isn’t worth mentioning.[…]”1901, Winston Churchill, The Crisis, published 2008, page 190
    Synonyms:
    clodhopper, lout, lummox, oaf

galoot meaning in Urdu

galoot in Urdu

بدھو, سپاہی

Synonyms of galoot

Forms of galoot

pluralgaloots

Origin of galoot

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.

Words that rhyme with galoot

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Questions about galoot

What does galoot mean?
Galoot means a clumsy or uncouth person.
What is galoot in Urdu?
Galoot in Urdu is بدھو, سپاہی. See Galoot meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is galoot?
Galoot is a noun.
How do you pronounce galoot?
Galoot is pronounced /ɡəˈluːt/.
What is the plural of galoot?
The plural of galoot is galoots.

Words near galoot in the dictionary

  1. Galois theory
  2. galoisian
  3. galon
  4. Galong
  5. galons
  6. galoot
  7. galoots
  8. galop
  9. galopade
  10. galopades
  11. galoped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: galoot (page history and authors); galoot (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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