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GALOOT
Definition of GALOOT
noun
A clumsy or uncouth person.
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Other senses
GALOOT carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A person, especially a clumsy or uncouth one.
noun
A fellow: a term of humorous contempt, often implying something awkward, silly, or weak in the person so designated.
noun
A noisy, swaggering, or worthless fellow; a rowdy.
noun
a disreputable or clumsy man
Where it comes from
From Quranic Arabic جالُوت (jālūt, pronounced galūt in Egyptian Arabic), proper name equivalent to English Goliath, giant warrior of the ancient Philistine ethnicity; cf. connotations of derogatory uses of English Philistine. Doublet of goliath.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Arabic
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.4%
of traced words share this origin (1,061)
branch · 2.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GALOOT · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GALOOT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 46 boards so far. 81 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
GALOOT starts with G and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AGLOOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of GALOOT. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found GALOOT?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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