gally
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.19 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised by or resembling gall; bitter.
noun
Diminutive of gal (“girl”).
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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 […]."
- "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) […]"
Etymology
From Middle English gally, from Old English gealliġ (“sour, sharp, bitter, sad”), equivalent to gall + -y.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
gallies (plural)
more gally (comparative)
most gally (superlative)
gallies (present, singular)
gallying (participle, present)
gallied (participle, past)
gallied (past)