lummox

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Fraser was everywhere in the 1990s and early 2000s: a sweetly handsome, blue-eyed lummox whose starring roles established him as a perpetual naif.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2022

In it, William H. Macy played Jerry Lundegaard, a watery-eyed lummox who wears a mask of Minnesota nice.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 23, 2014

In the script that Mr. Smith delivered, Lois Griffin, the wife of the titular “Family Guy” lummox, Peter Griffin, agrees to be a surrogate mother for a college friend who cannot conceive.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2010

Indeed, the redoubtable lummox actually triumphs over fate, women and his amazing girth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Them Muggles are coming, yeh see, with their flashing blues and they won’t ’preciate a big lummox like me, would they?

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling