Galoot vs Dunce - What's the difference?
galoot | dunce | Related terms |
(derogatory, ) A clumsy or uncouth person.
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Galoot is a related term of dunce.
As nouns the difference between galoot and dunce
is that galoot is (derogatory|) a clumsy or uncouth person while dunce is one backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.galoot
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- "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?”