Sekirov Dictionary

gally

adjective 1
verb 1
noun 1
forms 5

adjective1

•
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

verb1

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(dialect, UK) 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) […]

noun1

Diminutive of gal (“girl”).

forms

gallied · gallying · gallies · more gally · most gally

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