Gíria: Galoot

Great example João. Just a small correction though: “Shame on us for electing such a galoot!” or “Shame on us for having elected such a galoot!”. The pattern is ‘shame on someone for doing something’ (eg. Shame on you for talking behind her back.)

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Very good slang !!

My sentence : Don’t cross the trafic light you might cause an accident, you galoot !!

Correct me if it necessary

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Imagine: Imagine Tirica falando you galoot, talvez não seria tão engraçado.Rsrsrs. Abestado, abestado…

Raquel, ‘moron’ and ‘jerk’ are similar but there is a subtle difference. ‘Galoot’ implies the person is ‘desajeitado’ (clumsy), which ‘jerk” and moron’ don’t imply. In the case of Tiririca, all three apply!!!

I’m curious, Mark, do you actually hear people using this slang in your part of the world? I don’t think I’ve ever heard it.

While in the Nordeste I learned “abestado,” but the meaning there seemed to be love-stricken; in São Paulo in my time (long ago) “abestalhado” (derived from “besta”) always seemed to mean nutty, idiotic or some such thing. All the best.

Henry, these weekly selections from our dictionaries (slang, idiomatic expressions and phrasal verbs) are chosen randomly. In total, there are over 6,500 entries in the 3 dictionaries. Sometimes the slang or expressions are more popular, other times not as much.

There are over 2,300 entries in our slang dictionary and the idea when we wrote the book was to provide a comprehensive study of the whole gamut of slang, including ‘classic slang’ (if we can call it that!) like ‘galoot’, which is part of the lexicon and encountered in texts. Slang is very regional and specific to social class, age, interests etc. Not surprisingly, slang used by west coast surfers will not be known by east coast computer nerds. I can tell you, as a native English speaker and language researcher, I came across a lot of slang when I was researching this book that was new to me. But that’s the nature of slang, isn’t it?

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i liked this slang is very nice. thank you Mark for one more. a hug and all the best for you!