galleyn.
/ˈɡali/, U.S. /ˈɡæli/ 1. figurative and in extended use.1623 W. Drummond Cypresse Groue in Flowres of Sion 54 Who would not, rather than abide chained in this loathsome Galley of the world sleepe euer.1802 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris III. (1832) 166 I wish to get out of this galley, and live for myself.1890 Spectator 2 Aug. 145/2 They and their daughters chain themselves down in the galley of fashion.
a. A low flat-built seagoing vessel with one deck, propelled by sails and oars, formerly in common use in the Mediterranean. Cf. galliass n. The rowers were mostly slaves or condemned criminals. Hence phr. to condemn, or send, to the galleys, and simply the galleys, to indicate the punishment of a galley slave. half, quarter galley (see quot. 1794).
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun]
quarternOE
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lodgec1290
galleya1300
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kidcotec1515
clinkc1530
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the hangman's budget1589
Newgate1592
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Lob's pound1597
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marshalsea1652
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stone-doublet1694
iron or stone doublet1698
college1699
nask1699
quod1699
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black hole1707
start1735
coop1785
blockhouse1796
stone jug1796
calaboose1797
factory1806
bull-pen1809
steel1811
jigger1812
jug1815
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rock pile1830
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black house1846
tench1850
mill1851
stir1851
hoppet1855
booby hatch1859
caboose1865
cooler1872
skookum house1873
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detention camp1916
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slammer1952
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > vessels propelled by oars and sails > galley
galleya1300
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row-galley1513
langfadc1540
lymphadc1540
crumster1596
a1300 K. Horn 185 Us he dude lede Into a galeie, Wiþ þe se to pleie..Wiþute sail and roþer.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 54 Þe erle..did mak a riche galeie With fourscore armed knyghtes.
c1440 Generydes 4105 He saw a galy fayre and strong lay atte rode.
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxliii. (1483) 293 He lete make galeys of werre.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xx. 55 He shall..delyuer you shype or galee suche as shall be nessessary for you.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccxxvijv Besides those that were put to death..very many were also condempned to the Galees.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. xii. 297 This course hath emptied more full, then filled empty purses, and many thereby have brought a Galeon to a Gally.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xlix. 193 His Fleet..was composed of five Foists, four Galliots, and one Gally Royal.
1682 News from France 10 No Sea-man nor Trades-man shall offer to go out of the Kingdom without leave, under the pain of being sent to the Gallies.
1699 A. Roberts Voy. Levant 15 At length we saw the half Galleys go their way.
1721 London Gaz. No. 5982/2 Above London-Bridge [they] met with two Gallies, one rowing with Fourteen Oars, and the other with Eleven, loaden with Goods.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 238 Half and Quarter Galleys are rigged and navigated the same as galleys; and take this denomination from their being much shorter. Bombay-galleys are like the former, but smaller, and mostly used by corsairs on the coast of Barbary.
a1832 J. Mackintosh Hist. Revol. Eng. (1834) iii. 92 The ministers of the Reformed faith were banished from France in fifteen days, under pain of the galleys.
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella III. ii. xx. 278 King Ferdinand's galleys were spread with rich carpets and awnings of yellow and scarlet.
1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 138 High on deck of their gilded galleys Our light sailors they scorn below.
b. Used with allusion to Molière Scapin ii. xi, Que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère? Cf. galère n.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [noun] > unpleasantness > unpleasant place
galère1756
Tartarus1821
galley1859
hellscape1894
asshole1918
arsehole1926
pisshole1928
shithole1930
shithouse1949
armpit1957
shitbox1966
bumhole1985
1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities i. v. 21 What the devil do you do in that galley there!
1874 L. Carr Judith Gwynne I. ii. 47 After hunting for you everywhere..here I tumble on you amidst the howling wilderness of Furrowshire. But what on earth are you doing in this galley?
1909 G. B. Shaw in Nation 16 Jan. 601/1 Asking incredulously what the devil he is doing in that galley.
1948 R. Scott-James in F. M. Ford Man could stand Up (new ed.) Pref. 5 Was he not that dextrous, fanciful, almost dilettante writer..? What was he doing in this galley?
2. Applied to the Greek or Roman warships, large vessels with one or more banks of oars.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > war galley
bastard1511
galley1513
galliass1544
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. ii. 29 Tua galeis did he cheis the ilk tyde.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. vi. §2. 60 The one was a passage for Gallies to be cut behind Mount Athos.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. liii. 497 The Dromones, or light gallies of the Byzantine empire, were content with two tier of oars.
1840 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. lix. 335 Ptolemy himself escaped, it is said, with only eight galleys.
1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 150 Over that blue sea, where..the Etruscan pirates hunted the Latin galleys.
3. A large open row-boat, e.g. one appropriated to the captain of a man-of-war, one formerly used on the Thames by custom-house officers, and by the press-gang (Adm. Smyth); also, a large pleasure-boat.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > other types of rowing boat
coblec950
row barge1466
bark1477
rowing barge1548
galley1570
caïque1625
catur1653
dory1726
skiff1793
dinghy1810
panga1811
dinghy1818
randan1838
dragon boat1846
guinea-boat1867
drive boat1879
pea pod1884
in-rigger1893
pointer1901
sandolo1928
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > large
galley1834
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Hiv/1 A Gallye, phacellus.
1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 19 May (1965) I. 413 I..went cross the canal in my Galley.
1813 Examiner 5 Apr. 218/2 Lieut. Devon had only the brig's galley..with him.
1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. i. ii. 21 Crowded in the glassy bay were the vessels of commerce and the gilded galleys for the pleasures of the rich citizens.
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations III. xv. 249 The Jack..asked me if we had seen a four-oared galley going up with the tide?
4. The cooking-room or kitchen on a ship. Cf. caboose n. Also, a ship's cooking-range.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking establishment or kitchen > [noun] > kitchen on ship
cook-room1553
galley1750
cookhouse1795
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [noun] > room for cooking in
cook-room1553
galley1750
cookhouse1795
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] > stove on ship
hearth1391
stove1750
galley1853
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > stove, fireplace, or fire
fire hearth1676
fagong1772
galley-fire1836
galley1853
ship-hearth1858
1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor Gally is a Place in the Cook-Room, where the Grates are set up, and in which they make Fires, for boyling or roasting the Victuals.
1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft i. 9 The sleeper started up with a ghastly and disturbed countenance, and..proceeded to the galley, or cook-room of the vessel.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast vi. 14 When I went to the galley to get a light, I found the cook inclined to be talkative.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxiv. 301 Three stoves and a cooking galley, four Argand and three bear-fat lamps.
1866 C. Nordhoff Young Man-of-War's Man i. 12 I got my pot..and proceeded to the ‘galley’ or cooking range.
5. Printing.
a. [ < French galée.] An oblong tray of brass, wood, or zinc, to which the type is transferred from the composing-stick.
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society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > galley
galley1652
slice-galley1875
tray-galley1896
page galley1918
1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον Ep. Liminary sig. A8v His [sc. the setter's] plenishing of the gally, and imposing of the form.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 25 Our Master Printer is also to provide Galleys of different sizes.
1777 tr. J. A. Comenius Orbis Sensualium Pictus (rev. ed.) 118 He putteth these in a gally till a page be made.
1864 Daily Tel. 28 June Three or four compositors..bring up their various contribution of type to the long ‘galley’ in which the article is put together.
b. A galley-proof; = slip n.2 10d.
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society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > proof > galley-proof
slip1818
galley-slip1889
galley1890
galley-proof1892
slip proof1892
page galley1918
1890 in Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1934 T. R. Coward in G. Gross Publishers on Publishing (1961) 149 When the corrections are made, the galleys go back to the printer and are made into page proofs.
1951 S. Jennett Making of Bks. i. vi. 88 The page proofs come to the reader, and must be checked against the corrected galleys, to see that all the corrections have been carried out.
1971 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Aug. 999/1 I have had galleys from Penguin Books, but more usually the finished product, fresh misprints and all.
6. (See quot. 1789) [= French galère.]
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1789 J. Keir First Pt. Dict. Chem. 96/2 Distillers of aqua fortis do not use retorts, but stone-ware bottles, with short crooked necks..Two rows of these vessels are disposed opposite to each other, in an oblong furnace called a galley; and a wood fire is used for the distillation.
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1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 389 Item, paid for v. galeygrewsis xvd.
1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health iii. f. 150 Straw a part in ye bottome of a broade or gallie glasse.
1604 Rates Marchandizes sig. E1v Gally pottes..Gally Tiles for foote paces.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. (In sense 1.)
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galley-fashion n.
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1691 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 294 Several persons are going to build privateers..after the gally fashion with oares.
1695 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 508 Some tenders built galley fashion.
galley-fight n.
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1599 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. ii. 122 We now haue had experience of Gally-fight.
galley-fleet n.
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1791 Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. 186/2 The number of land forces which he had on board the galley-fleet.
galley-kind n.
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1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. ii. iii. 97 We Essay-Writers, are of the Small-Craft, or Galley-kind.
galley-oar n.
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1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. x. 90 My own unceasing avocations, which chain me, like a slave, to the galley-oar of politics.
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galley-like adj.
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1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xii. 55 Her Bow and chase so Gally-like contriued, should beare as many Ordnances as with conueniency she could.
b. (In sense 4.)
galley-fire n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > stove, fireplace, or fire
fire hearth1676
fagong1772
galley-fire1836
galley1853
ship-hearth1858
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. i. 3 ‘What a bore to have no galley fire lighted,’ said one of the youngsters.
C2. Special combinations. Also galley-foist n., galley-halfpenny n., galley-man n., galley slave n., etc.† galley-bird n. Obsolete a galley slave.† galley-cassock n. Obsolete a garment worn by galley slaves.† galley-fish n. Obsolete ? a ‘Portuguese man-of-war’ (Physalia).† galley-frigate n. Obsolete ? a frigate built like a galley.† galley-matter n. Obsolete an offence to be punished by condemnation to the galleys.
galley-arch n. (see quot.).
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > boathouse > specific
barge-house1609
galley-house1699
galley-arch1867
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Galley-arches, spacious and well-built structures in many of the Mediterranean ports for the reception and security of galleys.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > sailor on galley > slave
forsary1546
galley slave1567
row-slave1578
'sforzato1607
mesonaut1623
forsado1625
galleriana1640
galley-bird1655
1655 T. White Grounds Obed. & Govt. 124 A knot of slaves and Galley-birds.
galley-brand n. a mark or brand on a galley slave.
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society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave > slave with specific duties > mark or brand on
galley-brand1856
1856 W. E. Aytoun Bothwell (1857) 80 More like a hideous galley-brand Than any wound from peace or war.
galley-built adj. (see quot.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [adjective] > built like specific type of ship
frigate-built1676
galley-built1769
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Waist When the waist of a merchant-ship is only one or two steps of descent from the quarter-deck and fore-castle, she is said to be galley-built.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > cassock > for galley slaves
galley-cassock1583
1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries i. 47 b The officers of the Inquisition bryng vnto them Saint Bennets furniture of apparrel, which is a gally cassocke [Fr. habillement de galere] without sleeues.
galley-dungeon n. ? a dungeon in which galley slaves are confined.
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1723 Pres. State Russia II. 337 The insupportable Slavery on the Gallies and in the Gally-Dungeons.
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1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 158 But O what stile can worthily declare (O Galley-Fish, and thou Fish-Mariner..) your dexteritie In Saylors Art.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 293 The animal I mean is the Galley Fish, which Linnaeus degrades into the insect tribe, under the title of the Medusa.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > frigate (next class to ship of line)
galley-frigate1600
frigate1630
caravel1707
jackass frigate1831
1600 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 709 The choice being made for the place to build the gally-frigat, ashore it was brought.
galley-growler n. (see quot.).
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > [noun] > seditious person
sower1380
kindler?c1450
stirrerc1450
subvertera1500
subverser1514
subvertor?1532
commotioner1549
provocator1559
seditioner1562
seedsman1587
tumulter1589
turmoiler1591
seditionary1607
seditiary1628
incendiary1631
patriot1644
embroiler1668
agitator1681
seditionist1786
agent provocateur1831
disquietist1834
insurrectionist1845
provocateur1855
galley-growler1867
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Galley-growlers, idle grumblers and skulkers, from whom discontent and mutiny generally derive their origin.
galley-house n. = galley-arch n.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > boathouse > specific
barge-house1609
galley-house1699
galley-arch1867
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. iv. 77 These Galley-Houses are 50 or 60 paces from the River side.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a crime > by type of punishment
galley-matterc1660
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 173 This makes it a gally matter to carry a knife about one whose poynt is not broken off.
a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) II. 324 It is no less than galley-matter for any man to kill deer or hog, except at this general hunt.
galley-nose n. (see quot.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > fore part of vessel > [noun] > any part in front of stem > figure-head
figurehead1766
head1804
headpiece1807
family head1835
galley-nose1867
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Galley-nose, the figure-head.
galley-packet n. a made-up story, lie, ‘yarn’.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > a false or foolish tale > [noun]
spellc888
triflea1250
talea1325
vanity1340
a tale of waltrot1377
fablec1384
niflec1395
triflerya1400
truffc1430
jest1488
winter's talec1555
winter story1646
galley-packet1786
galley-yarn1874
cuffer1887
ploda1903
scuttlebutt yarn1918
just-so story1922
1786 A. M. Bennett Juvenile Indiscretions V. 147 Why, sure, Miss, said he, that must be a galley-packet somebody or other has told you.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Galley-packet, an unfounded rumour.
galley-pepper n. (see quot.).
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Galley-pepper, the soot or ashes which accidentally drop into victuals in cooking.
galley-press n. ‘a small hand-press for pulling proofs in slip form’ (Jacobi).
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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun] > for taking proofs
proof-press1683
galley-press1891
1891 C. T. Jacobi Printing ii. 48 In establishments where..a class of work is executed which necessitates slip proofs, a galley-press is a requisite article.
galley-proof n. a proof in slip form taken from type on a galley.
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society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > proof > galley-proof
slip1818
galley-slip1889
galley1890
galley-proof1892
slip proof1892
page galley1918
1892 C. T. Jacobi Some Notes on Bks. 42 Galley proofs, these proofs supplied in slip form—not made up into pages.
galley-punt n. (see quots.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > used by pilot > type of
galley-punt1883
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > with specific rig > lugger > types of
barca-longa1681
nabbie1839
nickey1874
scaf1877
galley-punt1883
knock-toe1903
Montagu whaler1925
1883 W. C. Russell Sailors' Lang. Galley-punt, an open sailing-boat used by pilots in the Channel off the Forelands.
galley-rack n. (see quots.).
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1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 51 Galley-racks, receptacles for galleys.
galley-slang n. (see quots.).
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the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon > used by other groups
indenture Englisha1568
water language1702
jockeyism1802
slum1812
Polari1846
stable-language1856
scientificism1860
water-slang1860
Oxfordish1863
galley-slang1867
pitmatic1885
commercialese1910
legalese1911
academese1917
Hollywoodese1920
businessese1921
Hollywoodism1925
trade unionese1927
advertisingese1929
officese1935
sociologese1940
Whitehallese1940
Newspeak1949
patter1949
Pentagonese1950
educationese1958
computerese1960
managementese1961
spacespeak1963
computer-speak1968
techno-jargon1972
business-speak1973
Eurospeak1975
Euro-jargon1976
technospeak1976
doctorspeak1977
corporate-speak1978
medspeak1979
mellowspeak1979
technobabble1981
teenspeak1982
management-speak1986
codespeak1987
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Galley-slang, the neological barbarisms foisted into sea-language.
galley-slip n. = galley-proof n.
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society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > proof > galley-proof
slip1818
galley-slip1889
galley1890
galley-proof1892
slip proof1892
page galley1918
1889 H. B. Wheatley How to Catalogue iii. 58 These additions [to a catalogue]..may be printed from time to time at short intervals on galley slips.
1894 H. Caine in My First Bk. 72 I asked Mr. Theodore Watts..to read some ‘galley’ slips of it.
galley-stick n. (see quots.).
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society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > furniture surrounding matter in chase > specific
quoin1570
reglet1636
foot-stick1683
side stick1683
clump1875
galley-stick1888
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 51 Galley sticks, long side-sticks used for quoining up galleys.
galley-stoker n. (see quots.).
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Galley-stoker, a lazy skulker.
galley-yarn n. = galley-packet n.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > a false or foolish tale > [noun]
spellc888
triflea1250
talea1325
vanity1340
a tale of waltrot1377
fablec1384
niflec1395
triflerya1400
truffc1430
jest1488
winter's talec1555
winter story1646
galley-packet1786
galley-yarn1874
cuffer1887
ploda1903
scuttlebutt yarn1918
just-so story1922
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 172 Gally-yarn, a sailor's term for a hoaxing story.
1884 W. E. Henley & R. L. Stevenson Admiral Guinea iii. iv You the one overtaken and denounced; and you spin me a galley yarn like that?
1905 Daily Chron. 11 July 3/4 Mr. Baring-Gould has gathered up all the old galley-yarns.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
galleyv.
/ˈɡali/, U.S. /ˈɡæli/ transitive. To transport in a galley.Apparently an isolated use.
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1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. iii. 118 The cost and peril of galleying an invading army across the Straits.
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