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galoot slang.|gəˈluːt|
Also galloot, geeloot.
1. Naut. (See quot. 1867.)
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Galloot, a soldier. 1835Marryat Jac. Faithf. xxxiv, Four greater galloots were never picked up. 1865Slang Dict., Geeloot. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Galoot, an awkward soldier..A soubriquet for the young or ‘green’ marine.
2. ‘An awkward or uncouth fellow: often used as a term of good-natured depreciation’ (Standard Dict.). orig. U.S.
1866‘Artemus Ward’ Among the Fenians (Hotten) 30 Wake, Bessy, wake, My sweet galoot! 1869‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. at Home 22 He could lam any galoot of his inches in America. 1876Besant & Rice Gold. Butterfly xxvi. 199 Until the Golden Butterfly brought him to Limerick City..he was but a poor galoot. 1892Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker (ed. 2) 137 ‘My dear boy, I may be a galoot about literature, but you'll always be an outsider in business.’ 1898Bulletin (Sydney) 6 Aug. 32/4 ‘Who's that galoot 'as lost his 'orse, Sis?’ Bendigo was asking. 1944A. Clarke Coll. Plays (1963) 223 Big galoots in hobnailed boots! 1946I. L. Idriess In Crocodile Land xxx. 209 We'll lock this silly galoot up. 1966New Statesman 8 Apr. 497/3 The galoots who blew up Nelson's Pillar. |