Churl vs Galoot - What's the difference?
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A rustic; a countryman or labourer; a peasant.
* Emerson
A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.
* Sir Philip Sidney
A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.
* Drayton
(Theodism) a freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall
(derogatory, ) A clumsy or uncouth person.
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* 2012 , John C. Gallagher, The Blood-Dimmed Tide Is Loosed ,
Churl is a related term of galoot.
As nouns the difference between churl and galoot
is that churl is a rustic; a countryman or labourer; a peasant while galoot is (derogatory|) a clumsy or uncouth person.churl
English
Noun
(en noun)- Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth / Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls.
- A churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain or falsehood.
- like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf
See also
* churlishExternal links
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*galoot
English
Noun
(en noun)page 293,
- "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."
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- "Now there was an ugly galoot whose name isn't worth mentioning."
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- On TV and in movies and magazine ads, the image of fathers over the past generation evolved from the stern, sturdy father who knew best to a helpless Homer Simpson, or some ham-handed galoot confounded by the prospect of changing a diaper.
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- “So if someone does something I do not agree with, I could call him a galoot and it would be okay?”
- “Something like that, if you were friends.”
- “Are galoots always men?”