bluto

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5

Definition of bluto

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

name

  1. A man who is large and muscular in top-heavy proportions, often combined with a comically brutish and aggressive personality.
    “He was built like Bluto. "Who the hell are you?" he said.”
    “For whatever reason, it'd taken her a little while to get out of the cab when they first got here, and when Chuck introduced me — she stood a full foot shorter than him, a tiny woman next to this Bluto of a man, a knitted green afghan over her shoulders, a white blouse and blue jeans.”
    “His pit bull parts thinned out his back end but gave him a Bluto disproportion in his front end.”
    “It wasn't the black loudmouth I'd expected but a Bluto of a man almost filling the entire doorway.”
    “The customers sometimes called him Bluto. He earned the nickname by his tremendous build and great strength.”

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Etymology

Fictional character name for the antagonist of Popeye coined in 1932 by cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar.

Anagrams of bluto

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