Meanings
- A man who is large and muscular in top-heavy proportions, often combined with a comically brutish and aggressive personality.
He was built like Bluto. "Who the hell are you?" he said.
1986, Lee K. Abbott, Strangers in paradise, page 384 more examples
For whatever reason, it'd taken her a little while to get out of the cab when they first got here, and when Chuck introduced me — she stood a full foot shorter than him, a tiny woman next to this Bluto of a man, a knitted green afghan over her shoulders, a white blouse and blue jeans.
2008, Bret Lott, Ancient Highway: A Novel, page 152His pit bull parts thinned out his back end but gave him a Bluto disproportion in his front end.
2010, Susan Wilson, One Good Dog, page 21It wasn't the black loudmouth I'd expected but a Bluto of a man almost filling the entire doorway.
2011, Shaun Attwood, chapter 25, in Hard Time: Life with Sheriff Joe Arpaio in America's Toughest JailThe customers sometimes called him Bluto. He earned the nickname by his tremendous build and great strength.
2015, Maryann Bouco, chapter 4, in The Last Stand
Origin
Fictional character name for the antagonist of Popeye coined in 1932 by cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic بلوتو
- بلوتو (blūtō)the antagonist of Popeye
Portuguese Brutus
- Brutusthe antagonist of Popeye
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with Bluto
All rhymes →Cite this entry
Bluto. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bluto
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