What's the difference between galoot and lummox?

Galoot


Definition:

  • (n.) A noisy, swaggering, or worthless fellow; a rowdy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Berbatov is standing around trying to recall his favourite bit of Georges Perec's La disparition , and gets in the way of the onrushing Kasami, the big galoot.
  • (2) "I have to object to you referring to Ibrahimovic as Galoot," blasts Ted Storer.
  • (3) 33 min: Messi twists and twirls just to the left of goal, outside the area, laying the ball inside to Galoot, who turns and sends a low, hard shot well wide left of target.
  • (4) The big galoot balloons the ball miles over the bar, then has the brass neck not to look sheepish simply because the offside flag was up and it wouldn't have counted anyway.
  • (5) Almunia is sharp and first to the ball, though Galoot was offside anyway.
  • (6) Warriors, weapons and a galoot of enormous enemies to take down provide plenty of fantasy fun.

Lummox


Definition:

  • (n.) A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In response to a white supremacist’s massacre of nine black citizens of Charleston in a historic black church, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley on Monday finally answered the question, “Should the Confederate flag be taken down from state house grounds?” In the pantheon of gimme questions, it is one of the gimmiest, somewhat more difficult than “Should we have a do-over of the Iraq War” and only barely easier than, “Do I want to be drowned in a sack with rats?” The suit-fillers of Beltway media passed an energetic “She said yes!” through the Twitter-madding crowd with the enthusiasm of a lummox who proposes to his girlfriend on the ballgame Jumbotron and thumbs-up at 30,000 people after she bows to the peer pressure.
  • (2) No, it's back to being depicted as a nation of slack-jawed lummoxes incapable of a decent day's work, and to Iain Duncan Smith accusing the BBC's economics editor Stephanie Flanders of "peeing all over British industry" , after she failed to greet falling unemployment figures with unquestioning wonderment.

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