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▪ I. † ˈgally, a.1 or n. attrib. Obs.
[Of uncertain origin; possibly attrib. use of galley n., denoting garments worn by sailors or by galley-slaves (cf. galley cassock in galley n. 8); possibly evolved from a supposed analysis of galligaskin, though in our quots. appearing earlier than that word.]
In gally breeches, gally hose, gally slops, app. synonymous or nearly so with galligaskins.
1567Harman Caveat 35 They commenly go in frese ierkynes and gally slopes. 1570J. Drout Gaulfrido & Barnardo 182 They pull in peeces fast Their gally breeches all a rowe. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1877) 56 Some be called french-hose, some gally-hose..The Gally-hosen are made very large and wide. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 334, I nimbly tooke out two little bundles, but somwhat weighty withall, which I presently convay'd very handsomely into my Gally-sloppes.
▪ II. gally, a.2 ? Obs.|ˈgɔːlɪ|
Also 6 gallie, -ye, -ey, gawlie, -ye.
[f. gall n.1 + -y1.]
Gall-like, resembling gall in taste, bitter. Chiefly fig.
c1530Remedie of Love lxv, in Chaucer's Wks. (1532) 368 a/1 Ful of melancoly and gally yre. 1550Cranmer Defence 92 a, He abhorreth all gally and bytter drynkes of synne. 1566Drant Horace, Sat. i. iii. B v b, Then, gawlye wordes..He doth put vp..at those which from him fled. 1658Torments of Hell in Phenix (1708) II. 444 Their Ears are afflicted with horrible and hideous Outcries..their Tongues with gally Bitterness, the whole Body with intolerable Fire. 1665R. Hooke Microgr. 143 And then by the anger of the Fly is his gally poisonous liquor injected.
▪ III. gally, a.3 Obs. exc. dial.|ˈgɔːlɪ|
Also 7, 9 gaully, 9 dial. galey, goiley.
[f. gall n.2 + -y1.]
†1. Having galls or sores. Obs.—1
c1440[see galled ppl. a.2].
2. Full of galls, i.e. bare or wet places.
1602Carew Surv. Cornwall i. 19 a, Some of the gaully grounds doe also yeeld plenty of Rosa solis. 1607Norden Surv. Dial. v. 201, I see in some meddowes gaully places, where litle or no grasse at al groweth, by reason (as I take it) of the too long standing of the water. a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 187, I was mowing broad-clover, where some of it in gully-places [? read gally places] was short. 1790W. Marshall Midl. Counties II. 437 Gloss., Gally, scattered with galls. 1867W. F. Rock Jim an' Nell Gloss. (E.D.S. No. 76), Galey or Goiley, damp, as ground where springs rise. 1881I. of Wight Gloss., Gaully, thin and bad: applied to defective spots in crops of turnips or corn.
▪ IV. gally, v.|ˈgælɪ|
Also 7 gallow.
[OE. a-gælwan to alarm.]
a. trans. To frighten, daze, scare, startle. Now only dial. and in the whale fishery. Also dial. to scare away.
1605Shakes. Lear iii. ii. 44 The wrathfull Skies Gallow the very wanderers of the darke And make them keep their Caues. a1704T. Brown Wks. (1708) III. 102 The People look'd as if they were gallied. 1823New Monthly Mag. VII. 231 We were one and all mortally gallied at the sight. 1840Marryat Poor Jack vi, They [bull whales] are..easily ‘gallied’, that is, frightened. 1874C. M. Scammon Marine Mammals iii. iii. 227 The whale is approached in the most cautious manner, to avoid ‘gallying’ it. 1883Hampshire Gloss., ‘Galley them pigs out o' the peasen.’ 1886W. Somerset Word-bk., Gally, to frighten. (Very common.)
¶ ? Used for ‘to infuriate’.
1660Mrs. Rump 1 It's enough to gally a Gentlewoman of her quality to be despised by every idle boy.
b. Comb.: gally-baggar, -beggar, -crow (also written galli-), dial. names for a scarecrow.
1825Britton Beauties Wilts. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Gally-crow, a scare-crow in a garden, called in the Isle of Wight a gally-baggar. 1829in Col. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 355 ‘Gallibaggers’, a term used by the clods for anything to frighten away birds. 1879T. Hardy Ret. Native i. iii, What ghastly gallicrow might the poor fellow have been like? 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Gally Beggar, any object which may inspire a superstitious dread, as a ghost, or any frightening object dimly seen.
Hence ˈgallied ppl. a.
1787Grose Prov. Gloss., Gallied, frightened. Exm. 1851H. Melville Moby Dick III. i. 9 That strange perplexity of inert irresolution, which, when the fishermen perceive it in the whale, they say he is gallied. 1857Fraser's Mag. LVI. 73 Crack! goes the rifle from the hidden nook among the ‘gallied’ herd. 1888‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms II. iii. 48 They seemed awfully gallied about being stuck up and robbed of it [sc. gold]. 1903Kipling Five Nations 14 Our gallied whales are blind! 1946K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) xix. 318 Look here, Alec. I was wondering if you could come and have a look at a little job I've got that I'm a bit gallied about. |