lummox

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: lum=mox

CIDE DICTIONARY

lummox, n. 

 A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lummox, n. US colloq. a clumsy or stupid person.

Etymology

19th c. in US & dial.: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

lummox

boor, bumpkin, butterfingers, clod, clodhopper, clumsy, dub, duffer, foozler, foul-up, fumble-fist, gawk, gawky, goof, goofball, goofer, hayseed, hick, klutz, lobster, looby, lout, lubber, lug, lump, muff, muffer, oaf, palooka, rube, slob, stumblebum, stumblebunny, yokel

ROGET THESAURUS

lummox

Fool

N fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass, ninny, ninnyhammer, chowderhead, chucklehead, dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl, goose, goosecap, imbecile, gaby, radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany, trifler, babbler, pretty fellow, natural, niais, child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop, oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony, bull head, dunderhead, addlehead, blockhead, dullhead, loggerhead, jolthead, jolterhead, beetlehead, beetlebrain, grosshead, muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead, numbskull, thickskull, lackbrain, shallowbrain, dimwit, halfwit, lackwit, dunderpate, lunkhead sawney, gowk, clod, clod-hopper, clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate, bull calf, gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube, men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham, un sot a triple etage, sot, jobbernowl, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche, dotard, driveler, old fogey, old woman, crock, crone, grandmother, cotquean, henhussy, incompetent (insanity), greenhorn, dunce, lubber, madman, one who will not set the Thames on fire, one who did not invent gunpowder, qui n'a pas invente' la poudre, no conjuror, fortuna favet fatuis, les fous font les festinas et les sages les mangen, nomina stultorum parietibus harrent, stultorum plena sunt omnia.