as in klutz
a clumsy, awkward person that player is a lummox in the outfield, with three errors just this week

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Recent Examples of lummox Over nearly two centuries, the herbivore has been imagined as a spike-nosed lummox, inappropriate kangaroo and now, at last, a stiff-tailed, mostly quadrupedal animal. Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2017 Fraser was everywhere in the 1990s and early 2000s: a sweetly handsome, blue-eyed lummox whose starring roles established him as a perpetual naif. Ty Burr, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022 Max is still living happily in New York City with his owner, Katie (Ellie Kemper), and his lummox of a best friend Duke (Eric Stonestreet). The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 6 June 2019 An unemployed lummox of a man, McCausland spends most of his time getting drunk with his portly mother, and for years, the two have been embroiled in a July 4 fireworks competition with the Massimo family, their wealthy neighbors across the lake. Kira Bindrim, Newsweek, 5 July 2015
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Noun
  • On-the-go photographers, field workers, and hopeless klutzes will want to give this tough drive a strong second look.
    John Burek, PCMAG, 10 July 2024
  • In the beginning, Black’s Po was a klutz who trained himself to earn the title of Dragon Warrior, a name given to his region’s greatest martial artist.
    Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Land lubbers hike: Lace up those shoes for a 9 to 11 a.m. excursion on Sunday, Oct. 20, to Ansel’s Cave in The West Woods in Russell Township.
    Joan Rusek, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Water-lubbers can easily access freshwater lakes, rural flatland and woodland forests.
    Amy Aumick, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 May 2018
Noun
  • The Esprit's shape, arguably more avant-garde despite its age, consistently pegs the gawk meter.
    John Phillips, Car and Driver, 18 June 2020
  • The badaud, by contrast, is always liable to form a group or crowd, either for a mass gawk or some communal response.
    Julian Barnes, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2022
Noun
  • If your nipples change—especially if inversion happens suddenly or comes with tugging, pain, lumps, or discharge—consult a healthcare provider for further evaluation.
    Brandi Jones, MSN-Ed, Health, 2 Nov. 2024
  • All individuals who use these medications should be alert to symptoms of a thyroid tumor, such as a lump in the neck, a hoarse voice, and difficulty breathing or swallowing.
    Karen Berger, PharmD, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2024
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  • Nevertheless, this is the most forward-looking of the late jazz musician’s works, full of undeniable momentum and contagious exuberance as branch and her ensemble meld folk, calypso, dub, and punk into fervent, free-flowing jazz.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Marcus Theatre locations in Wisconsin will be showing the new dub in some locations, starting Aug. 30.
    Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Either Sandler could make great work but cynically chooses not to in order to make more money, or Sandler is a talentless oaf who somehow was able to achieve something actually good with the help of a visionary director.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2024
  • As women have enjoyed more economic opportunities, they’re less often forced to marry some oaf who gets violent after a few drinks — and, anyway, what self-respecting woman with independent means would want to marry, say, a fan of Andrew Tate?
    Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • And when someone does cross the line, like the louts who doused cops in Harlem and Brownsville with water in 2019, most officers have shown remarkable restraint.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2024
  • That’s the memorable insult that James Kennedy (the DJ of the group) hurled at Tom Sandoval (the resident lout) last season after Sandoval — who had a girlfriend — became romantically involved with Kennedy’s ex-girlfriend.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024

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“Lummox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lummox. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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