galoot

plural galoots

1. derogatoryA clumsy or uncouth person.

   “Now there was an ugly galoot whose name isn’t worth mentioning.[…]”

   1901, Winston Churchill, The Crisis, published 2008, page 190

   3 more examples

   “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, Frank Norris, The Octopus, published 2008, page 293

   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.

   1993, Time, volume 141, numbers 18–26, page 53

   “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?”

   2012, John C. Gallagher, The Blood-Dimmed Tide Is Loosed, page 113

   Synonyms: clodhopper, lout, lummox, oaf