bluto
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A man who is large and muscular in top-heavy proportions, often combined with a comically brutish and aggressive personality.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Fictional character name for the antagonist of Popeye coined in 1932 by cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar.