Galoot

"Galoot" is an old word, used primarily in Scotland, that means a person with an ungainly, cumbersome, and clumsy personality.
Within Internet-based woodworking communities, a galoot is a hand tool aficionado, specifically old hand tools.
Other uses
'Galoot' is a word used by the cartoon character Yosemite Sam - he frequently refers to Bugs Bunny as a 'idjut lop-eared galoot'.
Galoot is a word often used by the character Nancy Blackett in the Swallows and Amazons series of books.
Galoot is a left-recursive acronym which means "Galoots are lovers of old tools".
The word galoot features extensively on the 1984 Frank Zappa album Thing-Fish.
The word galuth (pronounced galoot) is a Hebrew word meaning exile. So in common usage, a galoot is someone who doesn't fit into the community.
Nowadays, some use galoot meaning "A kind of likable oaf".
 
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