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gally en · NOUN · etymology 1

Meanings

(alt-of, archaic) Archaic form of galley.
alt of galley
- In the Year 1746, an Indian of Buenos Ayres having been condemned to the Gallies at Cadiz, proposed to the Governor to purchase his Liberty by exposing his Life at a public Festival. 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 200:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
gallies	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Deriveds

gally en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

From Middle English gally, from Old English gealliġ (“sour, sharp, bitter, sad”), equivalent to gall + -y.

Meanings

Characterised by or resembling gall; bitter.
- For by the Dart, which is likewise a pipe, is made a deep passage into the skin, and then by the anger of the Fly, is his gally poisonous liquor injected […]. 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXV:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
more gally	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic
most gally	Degree=Sup		lexicographic

gally en · VERB · etymology 3

Etymology

See gallow (transitive verb).

Meanings

(UK, dialectal) To frighten, spook; to appall; to worry.
- April 8 1700, Tom Brown, letter to Mr. Briscoe in Covent-Garden The next Day being Sunday, call'd by the Natives of this Country Maze Sunday, (and indeed not without some Reason, for the People look'd as if they were gallied) […]

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
gallied	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
gallied	Tense=Past		lexicographic
gallies	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
gallying	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic

Deriveds

gallybagger · gallicrow

gally en · NOUN · etymology 4

Etymology

From gal + -y.

Meanings

(diminutive, form-of, no-plural) Diminutive of gal (“girl”).
form of gal

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