"Galoot" is an old word used, primarily in Scotland, that means a person
with an ungainly, cumbersome, and clumsy personality.

"Come here you big 'ol galoot!"
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A big hulking skanky man whose often clumsy -'first seen on Ren and Stimpy'-
'You big galoot now look what you did!'
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A devastatingly handsome, crushingly intelligent and bitingly witty man.
Galoot stalked me, and I LIKED it!
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also galute

1)n. a big, dumb, rather oafish man
2)n. description that combines the worst aspects of being lazy and fat
3)n. a combination of 1) and 2)

The word galoot is rarely used completely seriously. Instead, it is usually used as playful exaggeration or in self-deprecation. On those rare occasions when it is more directly applied (to others) its light nature gives it the form of mild reproach.
1) You're just a dumb galoot, but I love you anyway.
2) I haven't gotten off my ass all day! I'm such a galoot!
3) You'd have a hard time finding a job, even if you weren't having such a hard time getting out of bed, you big galoot! Don't you know potato chips cost money?
by Jamos February 22, 2005
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Big, dumb individual. An oaf.
"Get the hell outta my saloon, ya redneck galoot!"
by Jenesis September 18, 2004
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someone who profers to use old hand tools instead of modern power tools
the galoot really liked to use his hand planer
by crazyshiot June 7, 2009
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idiot that has no idea what he's doing, and someone who changes themselves (physically, sometimes mentally) during a relationship
He used to be all preppy and now that he's going out with her, he's become a galoot.
by someone March 18, 2004
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