When I hear the word brute, it goes with force and power, but also clumsy oaf, watch yourself you brute or big gal lute, it can mean selfish or uncaring of others through your actions, without thought using only impulsive animal instincts.
dictionary:
An animal other than a human; a beast.
A brutal, crude, or insensitive person.
adj.
Of or relating to animals other than humans: “None of the brute creation requires more than food and shelter” (Henry David Thoreau).
Characteristic of a brute, especially:
a. Entirely physical: brute force.
b. Lacking or showing a lack of reason or intelligence: a brute impulse.
c. Savage; cruel: brute coercion.
d. Unremittingly severe: was driven to steal food through brute necessity.
Coarse; brutish.
[From Middle English, nonhuman, from Old French brut, from Latin brūtus, stupid; see gwerə- in Indo-European roots.]
Brutus -
Marcus Junius Brutus - Assassin of Julius Caesar
also:
a legendary Trojan hero, great-grandson of Aeneas and supposed ancestor of the British people. In medieval legend he was said to have brought a group of Trojans to England and founded Troy Novant or New Troy (London).
Popeye the sailor’s arch-nemesis who was always trying to steal his girlfriend, Olive Oil.
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