gally

== English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== gally (plural gallies) Archaic form of galley. ===== Derived terms ===== galligaskins === Etymology 2 === From Middle English gally, from Old English gealliġ (“sour, sharp, bitter, sad”), equivalent to gall +‎ -y. ==== Adjective ==== gally (comparative more gally, superlative most gally) Characterised by or resembling gall; bitter. === Etymology 3 === See gallow (transitive verb). ==== Verb ==== gally (third-person singular simple present gallies, present participle gallying, simple past and past participle gallied) (UK, dialect) 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) […] ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 4 === From gal +‎ -y. ==== Noun ==== gally (plural not attested) Diminutive of gal (“girl”). ===== Synonyms ===== girlie === References === “gally”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === gyall == Hungarian == === Etymology === From a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *golь, a noun formed from *golъ (“bare, leafless”). Compare Czech hůl (“stick”), Old East Slavic голь (golĭ, “twig”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈɡɒjː] Rhymes: -ɒjː === Noun === gally (plural gallyak) twig Holonyms: fa, bokor Coordinate terms: rügy, hajtás, vessző, ág, törzs ==== Declension ==== === See also === gajra megy/vág (unrelated, though sometimes written gally(ra) due to an assumed relation) Appendix:Hungarian words with ly === Further reading === gally in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN. gally in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024). Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*golь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 16