gallyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

名詞

gally (plural gallies)

1. Archaic form of galley.
   • 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 200:

     In the Year 1746, an Indian of Buenos Ayres having been condemned to the Gallies at Cadiz, proposed to the Governor to purchase his Liberty by exposing his Life at a public Festival.

派生語

• galligaskins

語源 2

From 中期英語 gally, from 古期英語 gealliġ (“sour, sharp, bitter, sad”), equivalent to gall +‎ -y.

形容詞

gally (comparative more gally, superlative most gally)

1. Characterised by or resembling gall; bitter.
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXV:

     For by the Dart, which is likewise a pipe, is made a deep passage into the skin, and then by the anger of the Fly, is his gally poisonous liquor injected […].

語源 3

See gallow (transitive verb).

動詞

gally (third-person singular simple present gallies, present participle gallying, simple past and past participle gallied)

1. (UK, dialect) To frighten, spook; to appall; to worry.
   • April 8 1700, Tom Brown, letter to Mr. Briscoe in Covent-Garden

     The next Day being Sunday, call'd by the Natives of this Country Maze Sunday, (and indeed not without some Reason, for the People look'd as if they were gallied) […]

語源 4

From gal +‎ -y.

名詞

gally (plural not attested)

1. diminutive of gal (“girl”)

同意語

• girlie

参照

• “gally”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• gyall