Crossword clues for galoot
galoot
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Galoot \Ga*loot"\, n. A noisy, swaggering, or worthless fellow; a rowdy. [Slang, U. S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1812, nautical, "raw recruit, green hand," apparently originally a sailor's contemptuous word for soldiers or marines, of unknown origin. "Dictionary of American Slang" proposes galut, Sierra Leone creole form of Spanish galeoto "galley slave." In general (non-nautical) use by 1866, "awkward or boorish man," but often a term of humorous contempt.
Wiktionary
n. (context derogatory English) A clumsy or uncouth person.
WordNet
n. a disreputable or clumsy man
Wikipedia
Galoot is a 2003 Israeli documentary that explores the Israeli–Palestinian conflict from the perspective of Palestinian refugees and new immigrants to Israel. It includes scenes in London, Israel, Morocco and Poland. The film stars Dr Tim Hunt, 2001 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Usage examples of "galoot".
And what my office wants, what I personally hope for, is that we can end this thing before some of these old galoots up there take it into their heads to join him.
I'm always running into regular dudes--construction workers, auto mechanics, taxi drivers, galoots in general--who were largely aliterate until something made it necessary for them to become readers and start actually thinking about things.
But all the singing was being done by his accompanist: a tall skinny galoot with long brown hair and a beard, playing an acoustic guitar.
One of the boys, a pimply galoot with a silver cross dangling from his neck on a chain, had a baseball bat in a homemade sling on his back.
It is this: The grand Father's bein' all hauly-mauly by the likes of us over bump and bumbust and all raggletailed and his poor bumleg all hurty and his grand aura all tarnagled and June bein' a bad month for new enterprises and a bad month for old enterprises accordin' to the starcharts and like that, we that is to say us the men have a faint intustition that maybe the best is not to come in terms of the grand Father the moon-hanger the eye-in-the-sky the old meister the bey window the bit chammer the gaekwarder the incaling the khando kid the neatzam the shotgun of kyotowing the principal stadtholder the voivode the top wali, this Being, I say, being a Being of the highest anthropocentrictrac interest, as well as the one who keeps the corn popping from the fine green fields and the like and the like, is maybe being abruised and lese-majestied by us poor galoots over many meters of hard cheese days in and out but even a galoot has a brain to wonder with and what we wonder is to what end?
I knew that must be true, if a galoot like Jays Malone could land at random and pick up a sample at his feet.
The Beav laughing about how Duddits had worried Santa Claus wasn't real, and all four of them - big high-school galoots by then, thinking they had the world by the tail - working to reconvince Duddits that Santa was a true thing, the real deal.