gallo
/ɡˈæloʊ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.05 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""A few bottles of Gallo muscatel, and you with all them trinkets.""
- "But Vincent was carrying a sack of groceries. He wasn't going to drop a half gallon of Gallo Hearty Burgundy, a bottle of prune juice and a jar of Ragu spaghetti sauce on the sidewalk."
- "On a good day he'd rip through several bottles of Gallo White Port and a fifth of bargain scotch. If he stumbled upon a twenty-dollar bill he would drink Irish whiskey."
- "I ate the result, drank some Gallo white and was ready to shout instructions and encouragement to Buddy Bell and the Tigers [...]."
- ""I'll get it," she said. "I promised your mother I'd keep an eye on you." Yeah, right, Ronnie thought, you and the Gallo Brothers."
- "The last thing I wanted was to lapse into maudlin snuffling, or get stopped for driving while under the influence of the Gallo boys"
Etymology
* As an Italian and Spanish surname, from the noun gallo (“rooster”). * Also as an Italian surname, from the personal name Gallo, from Latin Gallus (“a Gaul”). This is sometimes Americanized from Greek Γάλλος (Gállos). Compare Gallia. * As a Breton surname, shortened from Le Gallo, a diminutive of Le Gall; compare Legall. * (language): From Breton gall (“a Gaul or a foreigner”), from being a language found in eastern Brittany of the non-Celts, from Latin Gallus.