英:[gə'lu:t]
美:[gə'lut]
英:[gə'lu:t]
美:[gə'lut]
1812年,航海用语,“新兵,新手”,显然最初是水手对士兵或海军陆战队员的蔑称,起源不明。《美国俚语词典》提出 galut,塞拉利昂克里奥尔语形式,源自西班牙语 galeoto “桨手奴隶”。在一般(非航海)用法中,自1866年起,“笨拙或粗鲁的男人”,但通常是一种幽默的蔑称。
of obscure origin
The first known use of galoot was circa 1818
galoreadjective
abundant, plentiful—used after the word it modifies
has charm galore
galootnoun
fellow sense 4aespecially: a person who is odd or foolish
1 Tall and gangly and with arms that seem impossibly long, the Atlanta rapper 2 Chainz is an endearing galoot, never menacing even when talking tough.
2 To the end, Frank confessed that he knew nothing more than the average galoot.
3 Jacob had grown into a long, thin, slouching galoot with a yellow face and a live-long-day scowl.
4 Let them do what they would, he would show them that he was a man of his own notions, and no set of men could run him, much less a body of uneducated "galoots."
5 Why did that galoot have to go so far away?...
6 Both, O thou righteous one, yet little can be said of either: our chenourain are vile places, and our teachers are like ourselves, bound in the galoot of sin.
7 He was a big, tall galoot of a kid with narrow eyes.
8 "That feller thet jest went out is your brother's new foreman, Ken Douglass, the sandiest galoot an' best cowman on this range," he concluded.
9 They and their officers are the carelessest lot of galoots that ever lived.
10 “Only,” continued Nelson affectionately, “I think you were a great big galoot, Dan, to stand up there and bluff Captain Chowder with an empty revolver.”
11 "Well, of all the crazy galoots!" muttered Ellen, deciding that coffee would do no good here.
12 Who would let such a galoot in the door?
13 Played cards with a galoot who had some aces in his boot-tops.
14 Winston Duke, my favorite big galoot, gets to have a little fun as the garrulous tribal leader M’Baku, but the new character Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne), who is intended for a Disney+ TV spin-off, feels a bit lost in the shuffle.
15 Me and Si are goin' back to look for that galoot that shot at us.
16 My dear boy, I may be a galoot about literature, but you’ll always be an outsider in business.
17 he's a bighearted galoot, even if he's not the sharpest tool in the shed
18 True, it pays twenty per cent, dividends on its face, and that scares the conservative galoots in New York.
19 “Ginger pop! but what wouldn’t I give right now to know jest whar that galoot was meanin’ to drop down, once he gets over the land.
20 Big galoot though he may be, the legendary 1933 “King Kong” has been careful to keep his distance from a national theatrical release for quite a while.
2 愚笨的人
3 蠢货
silly poop prune swab gaby neddy sawney sawny woodenhead pudding head chicken head putty head dry hole
5 蠢人
nong goop Charlie pillock plonker oik goon dingbat DIP fool goat jerk boob moron muff dunce softie oaf dullard cuddy dunderhead nit
7 怪人
dingbat card crazy NUT quiz weirdo curio screwball ding-a-ling crotcheteer one case character fruit bird screw personality crack nut cure freak specimen crank squirrel paradox eccentric queer lunatic oddity spook oddball hairpin dork geezer crackpot wack fruitcake goofball kook codger spaz zombi weirdy ratbag Bandersnatch cueball
8 傻瓜
it patch nut stupid zombie hash donkey hare doodle goof sop zany twit cluck clod looney dolt coot gosling klutz gaby schmo nincompoop cuddy boche dunderhead noddy gubbins cully goosey hardhead lunkhead sawney mome zombi goosie pantaloon goofer jughead stupe juggins stookie stooky sawny noodlehead dull-head knucklehead chucklehead saphead chowderhead bullet-head moonhead doughhead blunder head fat head moon raker easy mark tab show crazy cat pumpkin head lame brain
10 蠢家伙