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Galoot vs Clod - What's the difference?

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Galoot is a related term of clod.


As nouns the difference between galoot and clod

is that galoot is (derogatory|) a clumsy or uncouth person while clod is a lump of something, especially of earth or clay.

As a verb clod is

to pelt with clods.

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

    clod

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
  • * Milton
    • clods of iron and brass
  • * E. Fairfax
    • clods of blood
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The earth that casteth up from the plough a great clod', is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller ' clod .
  • * T. Burnet
    • this cold clod of clay which we carry about with us
  • * 2010 ,
    • "What a bunch of hooey," I said under my breath, tossing a dirt clod over my shoulder against the locked-up garden shed.
  • The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • the clod where once their sultan's horse has trod
  • A stupid person; a dolt.
    • (Dryden)
  • Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.

    • Verb

    (clodd)
  • To pelt with clods.
    • (Jonson)
  • (Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.
    • clodded gore
  • * G. Fletcher
    • Clodded in lumps of clay.
    (Webster 1913)

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