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"3": "جالُوت",
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"ref": "1901, Frank Norris, The Octopus, published 2008, page 293",
"text": "I talk like a galoot when I get talking to feemale girls and I can’t lay my tongue to anything that sounds right.",
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"ref": "1901, Winston Churchill, The Crisis, published 2008, page 190",
"text": "Now there was an ugly galoot whose name isn’t worth mentioning.[…]",
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{
"ref": "1993, Time, volume 141, numbers 18–26, page 53",
"text": "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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"ref": "2012, John C. Gallagher, The Blood-Dimmed Tide Is Loosed, page 113",
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"word": "lout"
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{
"word": "oaf"
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"roman": "dondlo",
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"word": "Tölpel"
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"sense": "clumsy or uncouth person",
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"word": "galoot"
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"ref": "1901, Winston Churchill, The Crisis, published 2008, page 190",
"text": "Now there was an ugly galoot whose name isn’t worth mentioning.[…]",
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"ref": "1993, Time, volume 141, numbers 18–26, page 53",
"text": "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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},
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"ref": "2012, John C. Gallagher, The Blood-Dimmed Tide Is Loosed, page 113",
"text": "“So if someone does something I do not agree with, I could call him a galoot and it would be okay?”\n“Something like that, if you were friends.”\n“Are galoots always men?”",
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"sense": "clumsy or uncouth person",
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"sense": "clumsy or uncouth person",
"word": "დონდლო"
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"sense": "clumsy or uncouth person",
"word": "მოუქნელი"
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"sense": "clumsy or uncouth person",
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"word": "Tölpel"
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"sense": "clumsy or uncouth person",
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"word": "Steinzeitmensch"
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"sense": "clumsy or uncouth person",
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"sense": "clumsy or uncouth person",
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"sense": "clumsy or uncouth person",
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"word": "неуклю́жий челове́к"
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"roman": "nelóvkij čelovék",
"sense": "clumsy or uncouth person",
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"word": "нело́вкий челове́к"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "úvalenʹ",
"sense": "clumsy or uncouth person",
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"word": "у́валень"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "clumsy or uncouth person",
"tags": [
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"word": "gaznápiro"
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],
"word": "galoot"
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