gralloch
/ˈɡɹæləx/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The entrails or offal of a dead deer, especially when removed. Also the entrails of other wild animals, when removed.
Uncountable
verb
(transitive) To gut or eviscerate a deer, or other game animal.
Example Sentences
- "A hand's as easy to cut as a finger for a man who has gralloched deer with a keen sgian-dubh."
- "On our mattress in the secret nights, the girls whispered to me how he’d been watching her in a revival of Emma Bovary in an art-house in Berkeley and Tristessa’s eyes, eyes of a stag about to be gralloched, had fixed directly upon his and held them."
- "Then the beasts were prised apart at the breast, and they went to work on the gralloching again, riving open the front as far as the hind-fork, fetching out the offal, then with further purpose filleting the ribs in the recognised fashion."
- "— The Herald (Scotland), December 9t 2000."
Etymology
From Scottish Gaelic grealach (“entrails”), from Proto-Celtic *gre-lach, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“bowels”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: grealach, *gre-lach, *ǵʰer-
Usage
Inflected Forms
grallochs (present, singular)
gralloching (participle, present)
gralloched (participle, past)
gralloched (past)
grallochin (participle, present)
grallocht (participle, past)
grallocht (past)