Yes, I remember "galoot" from either cartoons or westerns ...
Chris
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On 27 May 2005, at 15:35, Walt Wayman wrote:
> Perhaps the terminology is suspect. Since I was a little
> whippersnapper I have associated the term "galoot" with Gabby Hayes
> and any number of other cantankerous but lovable sidekicks in the
> westerns I grew up watching. Too late, after composing and sending
> off my bit of doggerel, I happened to look up the word in the event
> someone not familiar with it should ask its meaning. I was
> surprised to find it means "a clumsy or uncouth person." I
> certainly don't mean in any way to imply that Brian is either. I
> do suspect, however, that, like myself and a certain unnamed
> Australian, he may have a bit of Gabby Hayes in him. :-)
>
> Walt (not Whitman)
>
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