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Gally

adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Characterised by or resembling gall; bitter.

    "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 […]."

Noun
  1. 1
    Archaic form of galley. alt-of, archaic

    "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."

  2. 2
    Diminutive of gal (“girl”). diminutive, form-of, no-plural
Verb
  1. 1
    To frighten, spook; to appall; to worry. UK, dialectal

    "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) […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English gally, from Old English gealliġ (“sour, sharp, bitter, sad”), equivalent to gall + -y.

Etymology 2

See gallow (transitive verb).

Etymology 3

From gal + -y.

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