Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gallivat

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gal-li-vat
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, used on the Malabar coast.

Example Sentences

"[They] found them next Morning out of Sight, excepting a Ketch and some few Gallivats, (small sort of Vessels something like the Feluccas of the Mediterranean, and hoists, like them, triangular Sails.)"
"1812, Alexander Chalmers, The General Biographical Dictionary Volume 18, on Sir William James At one time when he had near seventy sail under his protection, he was assailed by a large fleet of Angria’s frigates and gallivats […]"

Etymology

Probably from Portuguese galeota. Compare English galiot, galley.

Origin

Source language: Portuguese

Word Breakdown

Root: galeota

Inflected Forms

gallivats (plural) galbat (alternative) galivat (alternative) gallevat (alternative) gallowet (alternative) gallouet (alternative) jalia (alternative)

Questions

What does gallivat mean?: A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, used on the Malabar coast.
Where does gallivat come from?: It is traced to Portuguese.

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