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Galoot vs Booby - What's the difference?

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Galoot is a related term of booby.


As nouns the difference between galoot and booby

is that galoot is (derogatory|) a clumsy or uncouth person while booby is a stupid person or booby can be (slang) a woman’s breast.

As a verb booby is

(rare|intransitive) to behave stupidly; to act like a booby.

galoot

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (derogatory, ) A clumsy or uncouth person.
  • * 1901 , , 2008, 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."
  • * 1901 , , 2008, page 190,
    • "Now there was an ugly galoot whose name isn't worth mentioning."
  • * 1993 , , Volume 141, Issues 18-26, page 53,
    • 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.
  • * 2012 , John C. Gallagher, The Blood-Dimmed Tide Is Loosed , page 113,
    • “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?”

    Synonyms

    * (clumsy or uncouth person) lout, oaf

    booby

    English

    (wikipedia booby) (Sulidae)

    Etymology 1

    17th Century. (etyl) bobo, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (boobies)
  • A stupid person.
  • (by extension) Any of various large tropical seabirds from the genera Sula'' and ''Papasula in the gannet family Sulidae, traditionally considered to be stupid.
  • * 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
    • At which time, ?ome Boobyes , weary of flight, made our Ship their pearch, an animall ?o ?imple as ?uffers any to take her without feare, as if a ?tupid ?en?e made her carele??e of danger...
    Synonyms
    * (stupid person) * (large tropical seabird) sulid
    Derived terms
    * Abbott's booby, Papasula abbotti * blue-footed booby, Sula nebouxii * brown booby, Sula leucogaster * masked booby, Sula dactylatra * Nazca booby, Sula granti * Peruvian booby, Sula variegata * red-footed booby, Sula sula * Tasman booby, * booby trap

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (rare) To behave stupidly; to act like a booby.
  • * 1824 (Washington Irving), "Proclamation", Salmagundi volume 1:
    • Who lounge and who loot, and who booby about, / No knowledge within, and no manners without;
  • To install a booby trap on or at (something); to attack (someone) with a booby trap.
  • * 1976 "Weekly Almanac", Jet volume 22, page 44:
    • Self Boobied . Donald E. Campbell of Merritt Island, Fla., accidentally tripped on one of the shotgun shell booby traps he had installed

    Etymology 2

    From the earlier form bubby .

    Noun

    (boobies)
  • (slang) a woman’s breast
  • * 1934 (Henry Miller),
    • At ten o’clock she was lying on the divan with her boobies in her hands.

    Derived terms

    * boob

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