Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utcsstat.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!utcsstat!laura From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: galoot Message-ID: <1244@utcsstat.UUCP> Date: Sat, 8-Oct-83 23:30:56 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsstat.1244 Posted: Sat Oct 8 23:30:56 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Oct-83 10:52:17 EDT References: <2534@teklabs.UUCP> Organization: U. of Toronto, Canada Lines: 8 Your problem is that you are using the Webster's Dictionary. Get a real one :-) From the OED galoot: n (calloq.) (Strange or clumsy) person. [19th c. Naut. sl.; orig. unkn.] laura creighton utzoo!utcsstat!laura