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go⋅lem

  [goh-luhm, -lem]
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–noun
1. Jewish Folklore. a figure artificially constructed in the form of a human being and endowed with life.
2. a stupid and clumsy person; blockhead.
3. an automaton.
Origin:
1895–1900; (< Yiddish goylem) < Heb gōlem embryo, larva, cocoon
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go·lem   (gō'ləm)   
n.  In Jewish folklore, an artificially created human supernaturally endowed with life.

[Hebrew gōlem, lump, clod, fool, from gālam, to wrap up; see glm in Semitic roots.]
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golem 
"artificial man, automaton," 1897, from Heb. golem [Psalm cxxxix:16] "shapeless mass, embryo," from galam "he wrapped up, folded."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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