gally

gally (plural gallies)

1. Archaic form of galley.
   • 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 200:

     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.

• galligaskins

From gall +‎ -y.

gally (comparative more gally, superlative most gally)

1. Characterised by or resembling gall; bitter.
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXV:

     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 […].

See gallow (transitive verb).

gally (third-person singular simple present gallies, present participle gallying, simple past and past participle gallied)

1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) To frighten; 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) […]

gal +‎ -y

gally (plural not attested)

1. Diminutive of gal (“girl”)

• girlie

• gyall

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”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɒjː]
• Rhymes: -ɒjː

gally (plural gallyak)

1. twig

• Appendix:Hungarian words with ly

• gally in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*golь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 16