Lexicographical Neighbors of Galloot
Literary usage of Galloot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... malignant. for decorating a court cupboard, probably of a size sufficient to
hold about a gallon. galoot (ga-löf), n. [Also galloot; of slang origin. ..."
2. Peck's Sunshine: Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun by George Wilbur Peck (1882)
"He looked at the ghost for a moment, and kept on lighting his cigarette, when a
galloot up in the gallery said, so everybody could hear it, "He don't scare ..."
3. Edwin Booth by Charles Townsend Copeland (1901)
"Had no occasion to hunt up ' galloot? — for when I decided to appear this fall
in London, I deferred my continental trip and contented myself with a flying ..."
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