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- Galoot
- (="awkward or boorish man"), originally a sailor's contemptuous word (="raw recruit, green hand") for soldiers or marines, of uncertain origin; "Dictionary of American Slang" proposes galut, Sierra Leone creole form of Spanish galeoto (="galley slave"); perhaps rather Dutch slang kloot (="testicle"), klootzak (="scrotum"), used figuratively as an insult
- Gas
- from gas, a neologism from Jan Baptista van Helmont, derived from the Greek chaos
- Geek
- from geck (gek) (="fool")
- Gherkin
- from Dutch plural of gurk (="cucumber"), shortened form of East Frisian augurk
- Gimp (cord or thread)
- from Dutch gimp
- Gin
- from jenever
- Gnu
- from gnoe (from Bushman !nu)
- Golf
- from kolf (="bat, club," but also a game played with these)
- Grab
- from grijpen (="to seize, to grasp, to snatch")
- Gruff
- from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German grof (="coarse (in quality), thick, large")
- Guilder
- from gulden
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