lummox


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lummox

and lommix and lummux (ˈləmɑks and ˈləməks)
n. a heavy, awkward, stupid person, usually a male. Sam is what you would call a lummux—but not to his face, of course.
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Tearful phone calls and the phrases no shaven headed lummox wants to hear ensued: "You've broken my heart" and "You've torn my family apart".
Gosh, there are some actual humans whose lives are affected by these things
Pimply, simply, lummox, schlemiel, chasm, cleft (four times), chicken, spume.
They've got a way with words - and I've got a good idea
Even the baby alligator who was supposed to be the main attraction at that point gave me a look as if to say, "You big lummox.
Families "resort" to fun: the all-inclusive amenities of Caesars Brookdale in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains combined with nearby attractions ensure that parents and their children will have plenty to do and plenty of time to do it. (Going Places)
When she went to interview the leader of the Russian people in 1924, Leon Trotsky greeted her by quoting from memory long passages of her 1923 novel Lummox.
Writing for her life
A former teacher, the genial, stocky Irishman only launched into a full time acting career in 1990, but since then he's been seen to public and critical acclaim as Hamish in Braveheart, playing Michael Collins in the TV movie The Treaty and, most recentl y, as a dumb lummox petty criminal in the award winning I Went Down.
Irish mobster in a gang of one; Mike Davies talks to Brendan Gleeson who plays notorious Irish gangster Martin Cahill
Ensslin, "there's always a great lummox who comes along.
Showdown in the Rockies
That, when you came right down to it, was the only point of the great lummox from Arkansas.
Minority report
Yesterday, as I was coming," Max said, "I saw her and that lummox Thanasi carry two bags out from the supermarket.
The little store on Bleecker Street
It said, 'The door of the church swung open and in stumbled this lummox of a woman with carrier bags of shopping'," recalls Brenda.
I'd have no chance of drama school now... working-class people can't afford the fees. I get begging letters; VERA ACTRESS BRENDA BLETHYN ON CLASS DIVIDE; EXCLUSIVE
He may look exactly what Equine Central Casting would send round if you asked for an archetypal old-fashioned chaser but he is more than just a staying lummox - there is plenty of engine and travel about him.
Dunguib conundrum; Alastair Down sees the Irish ace treat his rivals with contempt, but ponders whether any jumping errors may count for more in the heat of Cheltenham battle
Finally, however, Peter finds his destiny with Sydney Fife (Jason Segel), an unkempt lummox who drops by to scarf the free food at Peter's open house for the Lou Ferrigno home he's shouting.
A tortured bromance
HeOs not the enormous fattie he used to be, but heOs still an overgrown lummox, so needs the extra legroom this mega-jeep gives him
STAR CARS: HUMMER DINGERS; The Hummer is monster of all trucks, king of the road I and celebs canOt get enough of them..
From David Lawrence (NY, NY): I have published more than a hundred poems in Minnesota Review, North American Review, Midwest Poetry Review, Pearl, Shenandoah, Chicago Tribune, California Quarterly, William and Mary Review, Confrontation, The South Carolina Review, ACM, Folio, No Exit, Laurel Review, Poetry Motel, Poet Lore, Mudfish, Hoyden's Ferry Review, Lummox, The Iconoclast, Heliotrope, Barbaric Yawp, Mojo Risin', Zuzu's Petals Quarterly Online, P.
Literary letters
Unfortunately, before he could prove that big is not necessarily short for big lummox he died of TB.
Large not better, that's the long and short of it; BOXING: The bigger they are, the harder they fall
At the time, I recall thinking her husband was a lummox.
After Murrah: An Essay On Public and Private Pain
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