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Galoot vs Drongo - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between galoot and drongo

is that galoot is a clumsy or uncouth person while drongo is any bird of the family Dicruridae.

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

    drongo

    English

    Etymology 1

    (wikipedia drongo)

    Alternative forms

    * drongoe

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any bird of the family Dicruridae.
    • Derived terms
    * drongo cuckoo

    Etymology 2

    From an Australian racehorse named Drongo'', apparently after the bird (specifically, after the '''', ''Dicrurus bracteatus''). The horse (foaled 1921, retired 1925) ran poorly, and by transference anyone slow-witted or clumsy became a drongo."''Drongo''", entry in 1970 , Bill Wannan, ''Australian Folklore , Lansdowne Press, reprint 1979, ISBN 0-7018-1309-1, page 200. * Alternatively, from putative RAAF slang drongo'' (''a recruit''), similarly after the bird."''drongo''", entry in 2007 , Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, ''The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English , page 120. * Another suggested derivation is the (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang, pejorative) A fool, an idiot.
  • * 2010 , Graham Seal, Great Australian Stories: Legends, Yarns and Tall Tales , page 191,
    • In another story, the drongo' is working for a farmer when the boss decides it is time to build another windmill. The '''drongo''' agrees to help but asks the farmer if he thinks it really makes sense to have two windmills. ‘What do you mean?’ the farmer asked. ‘Well, says the ' drongo , ‘there?s barely enough wind to operate the one you already have, so I doubt there?ll be enough to work two of them.’
  • * 2010 , John Timpson, Upside Down Management: A Common Sense Guide to Better Business , unnumbered page,
    • One drongo executive can do harm enough, but things get worse when they start recruiting people like themselves.
    Synonyms
    * cretin, doilem (Geordie), dufus, fool, glaik (Geordie), idiot, mong

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