galoot

köntys puhekieltä A clumsy or uncouth person.
1901, w:Frank Norris|Frank Norris, w:The Octopus: A Story of California|The Octopus, 2008, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=KJvSgA1BW90C&pg=PA293&dq=%22galoot%22%7C%22galoots%22+feemale&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GktfU9yAJoyj8AWTuIKoCg&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22galoot%22%7C%22galoots%22%20feemale&f=false page 293,

"I talk like a galoot when I get talking to feemale(si) girls and I can't lay my tongue to anything that sounds right."

"Now there was an ugly galoot whose name isn't worth mentioning.(..)"

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.

“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?”