Dictionary: GALLI – GALZ

► GALLIAN adj. Gallic, French → 1591 obs.
► GALLIANT adj. gallant; gay → 1860 Eng. dial.
► GALLIARD adj. 1. lively, brisk, gay, full of high spirits → 1386 arch.
adj. 2. valiant, hardy, stout, sturdy → 1400 arch.
adj. 3. having a gay appearance, spruce → 1513 obs.
n. 1. a man of courage and spirit → 1532 obs.
n. 2. a gay, lively youth or young man; a dissipated man → 1802 Sc.
n. 3. a man of fashion → 1828 arch.
► GALLIARDISE n. gaiety, mirth, revelry; also, a merry trick → 1570 arch.
► GALLIARDISM n. gaiety, mirth, revelry → 1745
► GALLIARDIZING adj. tending to revelry; enlivening, exciting to levity → 1697 obs.
► GALLIBAGGER n. a scarecrow → 1829 Eng. dial.
► GALLIC n. a Frenchman → 1755
► GALLICAN n. one who favours friendly relations with France → 1876
► GALLIC-HANDED adj. left-handed; awkward, clumsy → 1796 Eng. dial.
► GALLICIDE n. a killer of fowls → 1897
► GALLICISM n. 1. an idiom or mode of expression belonging to the French language, esp. one used by a speaker or writer in some other language; also, free use of French idiom → 1656
n. 2. a French characteristic, custom, mode of thought, etc. → 1715
► GALLICIZE vb. to become French; to adapt oneself to French habits, speech, etc. → 1775
► GALLICO-ANGLIAN n. an Englishman who favours the French → 1804
► GALLICROW n. a scarecrow → 1879 Eng. dial.
► GALLIED adj. 1. hurried → E18 sl.
adj. 2. frightened, scared, alarmed → 1825 Eng. dial.
adj. 3. worried → L19 sl.
adj. 4. bewildered; confused; disconcerted → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GALLIER n. 1. a person who keeps teams for hire; a wagoner → 1882 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a mad prank → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 3. a thrashing, a beating → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. to fight; to drive away with blows → 1851 Eng. dial.
► GALLIERS n. a confused noise among a number of people; a romping bout → 1810 Eng. dial.
► GALLIERT adj. brightly coloured, gaudy → 1915 Sc.
► GALLIES n. 1. a confused noise among a number of people; a romping bout → 1810 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a pair of boots; shoes → 1886 UK tramps’ sl.
► GALLIFIED adj. frightened, scared, alarmed → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GALLIGANT n. a tall, ungainly person or animal → 1777 Eng. dial.
vb. to play the hoyden; to flirt; to gallivant → 1825 Eng. dial.
► GALLIGANTER n. a tall, ungainly person or animal → 1777 Eng. dial.
► GALLIGANTING adj. large and awkward; awkwardly big, slovenly in gait → 1874 Eng. dial.
► GALLIGANTUS n. a tall, ungainly person or animal → 1777 Eng. dial.
► GALLIGASKIN n. a gooseberry → 1864 Sc.
► GALLIGASKINS n. 1. a kind of wide hose or breeches worn in the 16th and 17th centuries; later, a more or less ludicrous term for loose breeches in general→ 1577
n. 2. trousers → 19C Brit. & US colloq.
n. 3. leggings, gaiters → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GALLIHOOT n. a spree → 1940 US sl.
vb. to go gallivanting → 1940 US sl.
► GALLIMAFRAY n. a hotch-potch; a dish of varied ingredients→ 1900 Sc. obs.
► GALLIMATION n. nonsense → 19C
► GALLIMAUFREY n. 1. a mistress → 16C
n. 2.  the female genitals → 19C Brit. sl.
► GALLIMAUFRICAL adj. miscellaneous → 1836
► GALLIMAUFRIER n. one who makes a gallimaufry or medley of something → 1592 obs.
► GALLIMAUFRY n. 1. a mistress → 16C sl.
n. 2. a heterogeneous mixture, a confused jumble, a ridiculous medley → 1551
n. 3. a dish made by hashing up odds and ends of food; a hodge-podge → 1591
n. 4. a promiscuous assemblage of persons → 1598
n. 5. a man of many accomplishments; one who is important; said somewhat contemptuously → 1600
n. 6. the vagina → 19C sl.
n. 7. confused talk → 1856 Eng. dial. 
vb. to cut up into a hodge-podge → 1831
► GALLIMAWFRY n. a hodge-podge; a confused mixture or medley of persons or things; confused talk → 1856 Eng. dial.
► GALLIMAWVERTY adv. said of one who conducts himself in a frolicsome or frivolous way → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GALLIMENT n. 1. a scarecrow; an alarming object → 1777 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a fright, scare, alarm → 1790 Eng. dial.
► GALLINICIDE n. the killing of hens or poultry → 1883
► GALLINIPPER n. a large mosquito → 1818 chiefly US
► GALLINIVOROUS adj. feeding on fowls or poultry → 1862
► GALLION n. 1. a lean horse → 1808 Sc. obs.
n. 2. the slave quarters; hence, the Black ghetto; the Black world → 1940 African-American sl.
► GALLIOT n. 1. a pirate → 1425 obs.
n. 2. a sailor or rower on board a galley, whether slave or free → 1506 obs.
► GALLIPOT n. 1. a small earthen glazed pot, esp. one used by apothecaries for ointments and medicines → 1465
n. 2. one who handles gallipots; an apothecary → 1785
► GALLISH adj. angry → 1595 obs. rare
► GALLIT adj. left-handed → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. a left-handed person → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GALLITHUMPIANS n. disturbers of order at Parliamentary elections → 1777 Eng. dial. obs.
► GALLITRAP n. 1. an unbecoming ornament or headdress → 1777 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a badly-made tool, implement, etc.; a contrivance → 1885 Eng. dial.
n. 3. any mysterious circle or figure → 1892 Eng. dial.
► GALLIVANT n. a nest of whores → E19 sl.
vb. to flirt, to philander; to act the gallant to → 1856 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GALLIVANTER n. an incurable flirt; a gasconading fellow → 1900 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GALLIVANTINGS n. jaunts, pleasure-trips, holiday-makings → 1900 Ireland (Bk.)
► GALLIVASTER n. one who gallivants, esp. a gasconading fellow; including the idea of tallness → 1826 Sc. obs.
► GALLIVATE adj. \frisking about → 19C Amer.
vb. to frisk, gallivant, gad about → 1893 Amer.
► GALLO-AMERICAN adj. of combined French and American character → 1797
► GALLO-BRITON n. one partly French and partly British, either in birth or sympathies → 1819
► GALLOCKY adj. left-handed; awkward, clumsy → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GALLOGLACH n. 1. a personal attendant of a Highland chief, the armour-bearer → 1703 Sc. obs.
n. 2. an armed foot-soldier; an armour-bearer → 1716 Sc. obs.
► GALLOMAN n. one who has an unreasoning attachment to France or French customs → 1787
► GALLOMANIA n. an unreasoning attachment to France or French customs → 1877
► GALLOMANIAC adj. having an unreasoning attachment to France or French customs → 1897
n. one who has an unreasoning attachment to France or French customs → 1819
► GALLON n. 1. a vessel for holding liquids → 1382 obs.
n. 2. a large amount → 1575
► GALLOND n. a gallon → 1892 Eng. dial.
► GALLON DISTEMPER n. 1. a hangover → E19 sl.
n. 2. delirium tremens → E19 sl.
► GALL ONE’S NAVEL vb. to wax wanton → 1902 sl. (Bk.)
► GALLON HEAD n. 1. a person with a large head → 1980 African-American sl.
n. 2. an intelligent person → 1980 African-American sl.
► GALLOON-GALLANT n. ? one who is gaily dressed → 1622 obs.
► GALLOOT n. 1. an awkward soldier; a young marine → 1812 sl.
n. 2. a man, esp. if hulking, stupid, boorish, foolish, clumsy, or otherwise objectionable; an awkward or uncouth person → 1818 UK
► GALLOP n. an act of sexual intercourse → 1970 sl.
vb. 1. to boil → 1605 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to dance rapidly → 1806 obs.
vb. 3. to run about the streets → 1900 Ireland (Bk.)
► GALLOP AWAY vb. to talk fast, to ‘rattle on’ → 1711
► GALLOPER n. 1. one who proceeds at great speed; also, one who gads about → 1671
n. 2. a blood horse → 1811 sl. obs.
n. 3. a five-shilling piece → 1887 Sc.
n. 4. a racehorse → 1960 Aust. sl.
► GALLOPHIL ► GALLOPHILE n. a friend of France and its interests → 1889
► GALLOPHILISM n. fondness for France, friendliness towards it → 1894
► GALLOPHOBE n. one having a morbid dread of the French, or who abhors what is French → 1883
► GALLOPHOBIA n. a morbid dread of the French, or abhorrence of what is French → 1803
► GALLOPING adj. worsening → 1785 UK sl.
► GALLOPING BONES n. dice → 1920 US sl.
► GALLOPING DANDRUFF n. head or body lice → 1910 Aust. & US sl.
► GALLOPING DOMINOES n. dice → 1918 US sl.
► GALLOPING FENCE n. a fence of rails set in the ground at about 45 degrees, crossing each other at the opposite end; such fences were formerly used on steep hills → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► GALLOPING FRECKLES n. head or body lice → 1920 US sl.
► GALLOPING GONDOLA n. a side-car motorcycle → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GALLOPING GOOSE n. a train, car, or plane that runs badly → 1910 US sl.
► GALLOPING HORSE n. heroin → 1959 US drug culture sl.
► GALLOPING KNOB-ROT n. a phallic itch, as itching in the male genital area → M20 Brit. military usage 
► GALLOPING SNAPSHOTS n. movie films → 1920 US sl.
► GALLOP ONE’S ANTELOPE vb. of males: to masturbate → 19C Brit. sl.
► GALLOP ONE’S MAGGOT vb. of males: to masturbate → 19C Brit. sl.
► GALLOP OVER vb. to hurry over in reading or reciting; to read cursorily → 1782
► GALLOPS n. horse racing → 1950 Aust. sl.
► GALLOP THE ANTELOPE vb. to masturbate → 20C sl.
► GALLOP THE LIZARD vb. to masturbate → 1960 sl.
► GALLOP THE MAGGOT vb. to masturbate → 20C sl.
► GALLOP THE OLD LIZARD vb. to masturbate → 1960 sl.
► GALLOP THROUGH vb. to hurry over in reading or reciting; to read cursorily → 1826
► GALLOPTIOUS adj. splendid, fine, excellent → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► GALLOP TO A STANDSTILL vb. in horse racing: to tire out → 1892
► GALLORUM adv. in abundance → 1813 Sc. obs.
► GALLOUS adj. 1. lively, spirited → 19C sl.
adj. 2. excellent, first-rate, with criminal overtones → 19C sl.
► GALLOUSNESS n. mischief, wantonness, love of mischief → 1859 Eng. dial.
► GALLOVIDIAN adj. belonging to Galloway → 1824 Sc.
n. a native of Galloway→ 1824 Sc.
► GALLOW vb. 1. to hang on a gallows or cross → 1400 obs.
vb. 2. to frighten, to daze, to scare, to startle → 1605 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 3. of a bird: to cluck, to scream→ 1825
► GALLOW-BREED n. a gallows-bird → 1508 Sc. obs.
► GALLOW-CLAPPER n. a gallows-bird; one who deserves to be hanged → 1570 obs.
► GALLOWED adj. frightened, scared, alarmed → 1825 Eng. dial.
► GALLOWEGIAN adj. belonging to Galloway → 1872 Sc.
► GALLOW-FORK n. a gallows-tree → 1225 obs.
► GALLOWGLASS n. an armed foot-soldier; an armour-bearer → 1716 Sc. & Ireland obs.
► GALLOW-GRASS n. hemp → M16 sl.
► GALLOWS adj. 1. fit for the gallows; deserving to be hanged; villainous, rascally, wicked, depraved → 1425
adj. 2. very great, excellent, fine, first-rate → 1789 Eng. dial. & sl.
adj. 3. attractive, wonderful; self-confident, quick-witted, brave, tough, bold, daring, ostentatious, nonchalant → 1789 UK
adj. 4. spirited, sprightly; plucky; smart in appearance → 1865 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 5. mischievous, wild, impish, unmanageable, tiresome; impudent, saucy → 1875 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adv. extremely, very → 1823 Eng. dial. & sl.
n. 1. one deserving the gallows; a gallows-bird → 1588
n. 2. a thief or pickpocket or one who associates with them → L16 sl.
n. 3. suspenders for trousers; braces → 1730 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► GALLOWS APPLE n. a candidate for the gallows → L17 sl.
► GALLOWS-BIRD n. 1. a thief or pickpocket or one who associates with them → L16 sl.
n. 2. one who deserves to hanged; also, one who has been hanged → 1785
n. 3. the corpse of one who has been hanged → M19 sl.
n. 4. one who has been sentenced to be hanged → 1920 sl.
► GALLOWS-CLAPPER n. a gallows-bird; one who deserves to be hanged → 1583 obs.
► GALLOWS-CLIMBER n. one doomed to climb the ladder at the gallows, i.e. to be hanged → 1668
► GALLOWSES n. trouser braces or suspenders → 1819 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GALLOWS-FACE n. a rascal; one having the look of a villain → 1724
► GALLOWS-FACED adj. fit for the gallows, having a villainous, hangdog, run-down, shifty look → M18 sl.
► GALLOWS-FOOL n. an arrant fool, one that deserves hanging → 1894 Eng. dial.
► GALLOWS-LOCKS n. hair that hangs like gallows ropes → 1809
► GALLOWS-LOOKING adj. looking fit for the gallows; having a hangdog look → 1809
► GALLOWSNESS n. mischief, wantonness, perversity, love of mischief → 1859 Eng. dial.
► GALLOWS POOR adj. very poor → L18 sl.
► GALLOWS-RIPE adj. ready to be hanged → 1837
► GALLOWS-ROGUE n. a jailbird, a rascal; a good-for-nothing → 1894 Eng. dial.
► GALLOWS-ROUNDED adj. of hair: cut round like that of a condemned criminal → 1567
► GALLOWS-ROW n. a great fuss or outcry → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GALLOWS-STRINGS n. a term of reproach → 1675
► GALLOWS-TAG n. a jailbird, a rascal; a good-for-nothing → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GALLOWS-TANG n. a jailbird, a rascal; a good-for-nothing → 1887 Eng. dial.
► GALLOW’S-TRAP n. a Bow Street officer; a policeman → 1810 UK criminals’ sl.
► GALLOWS-TREE n. the gallows → 1000
► GALL-RUBBED adj. rubbed in such a way was to be chafed → 1725 obs.
► GALLS n. the jellyfish or sea-nettle → 1817 Eng. dial.
► GALL SPOT n. a mark produced by chafing → 1713
► GALLSTONE n. an irritating person → 1960 US sl.
► GALLUNA n. a derelict; a half-disabled vessel → 1891 Eng. dial.
► GALLUP n. heroin → 1950 drug culture sl.
► GALLUS adj. 1. very great, excellent, fine, absolute → M16
adj. 2. attractive, wonderful; self-confident, quick-witted, brave, ostentatious, nonchalant → 1789 UK
adj. 3. spirited, sprightly; plucky; smart in appearance → 1865 Eng. dial.
adv. extremely, very much → L18
int. an exclamation or mild oath → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. a thief or pickpocket or one who associates with them → L16 sl.
► GALLUSES n. trouser braces or suspenders → 1819 Sc.
► GALLUSNESS n. mischief, wantonness, love of mischief → 1859 Eng. dial.
► GALLY adj. sickly, delicate; yellow → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 1. to frighten, to daze, to scare, to startle → 1605 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to confuse with noise → 1869 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to drive or scare away → 1889 Eng. dial.
► GALLY-BAGGER n. 1. a scarecrow; an object of terror → 1790 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a person fond of going about; a gadabout → 1892 Eng. dial.
► GALLY-BEGGAR n. a scarecrow; an object of terror → 1790 Eng. dial.
► GALLY BREECHES n. galligaskins → 1570 obs.
► GALLY-CROW n. a scarecrow → 1825 Eng. dial.
► GALLY-FUGGLE vb. to deceive, to take in, to bamboozle → 1866 Eng. dial.
► GALLY-GANDER n. a fight with knives → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► GALLYHOOT vb. to go gallivanting → 1940 US sl.
► GALLY-HOSE n. galligaskins → 1583 obs.
► GALLYIE n. a roar or cry expressive of displeasure → 1827 Sc.
vb. to roar, to brawl, to scold → 1808 Sc. obs.
► GALLYPOT BARONET n. an ennobled physician → L19 sl.
► GALLYSLOPES n. 1. breeches → 1889 sl.
n. 2. leggings, gaiters → L19 sl.
► GALLY SLOPS n. galligaskins → 1567 obs.
► GALLY-STANG adj. wild, unsteady → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GALLY-TROT n. an apparition, a ghostly object → 1895 Eng. dial.
► GALLYWOW n. a man destitute of the power of begetting children → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GAL OFFICER n. a lesbian → 1940 African-American sl.
► GALOON n. an awkward or uncouth person; often used affectionately → 19C sl., orig. US
► GALOOSH n. an awkward or uncouth person; often used affectionately → 19C sl., orig. US
► GALOOT n. 1. an awkward soldier; a young marine → 1812 sl.
n. 2. a man, esp. if hulking, stupid, boorish, foolish, clumsy, worthless or otherwise objectionable; a big, awkward or uncouth person → 1818 UK  
► GALOPE vb. to belch → 1825 Sc. obs.
► GALOPIN n. 1. a turnspit; an errand-boy; a page → 1567 obs.
n. 2. an inferior servant in a great house → 1820 Sc. obs.
n. 3. a roving youngster, a street-arab → 1836 Sc. obs.
► GALOPSHUS adj. 1. delightful, luscious → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
adj. 2. excellent; first-rate → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GALOPTIOUS adj. 1. delightful, luscious → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
adj. 2. excellent; first-rate → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GALOREM adv. in abundance → 1813 Sc. obs.
► GALP vb. 1. to gape, to yawn → 1300 obs.
vb. 2. of an animal: to yelp → 1481 obs.
vb. 3. to vomit forth → 1529 obs.
vb. 4. to gape after, to be eagerly desirous of something → 1583 obs.
► GAL PAL n. 1. a female friend of a male homosexual → 1977 US sl.
n. 2. a woman’s female friend → 2001 US sl.
► GALRAVIDGE vb. to make an uproar; to gad about, to romp; to live riotously, to feast → 1793 Sc.
► GALRAVITCH n. noise, riot, uproar; a drinking bout → 1785 Sc.
vb. to make an uproar; to gad about, to romp; to live riotously, to feast → 1793 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GALRAVITCHING adj. noisy, riotous, drunken → 1822 Sc.
n. riotous living, feasting; a noisy merrymaking → 1820 Sc.
► GAL’S AT THE STOCKYARDS phr. a woman is menstruating → 20C US sl.
► GALSH n. 1. nonsense, rubbishy talk → 1909 Sc.
n. 2. tainted food → 1925 Sc.
vb. to talk nonsense → 1911 Sc.
► GAL-SNEAKER n. a seducer, esp. of other men’s women → L19 sl.
► GALSOCH adj. fond of good eating → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► GALSTRE vb. to make a noise or outcry → 1225 obs.
► GALT n. 1. a boar or hog → 1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 2. a sow; esp. a spayed female pig → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GAL TANK n. a holding cell in a jail reserved for homosexual prisoners → 1972 US sl.
► GALTEE vb. to spend → 1886 UK tramps’ sl.
► GALTER n. a racehorse swindler; a gambler → 1848 UK criminals’ sl. obs.
► GALTHERBLASH n. silly talk → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GALTI n. a pig, esp. a castrated boar; a nickname or a pet-name for a pig → 1795 Sc.
► GALUMPH vb. to march on exultingly with irregular bounding movements → 1872
► GALUPTIOUS adj. excellent; first-rate → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GALVA vb. to throb, to palpitate → 1876 Eng. dial.
► GALVANISE n. sheets of corrugated iron → 1965 Barbados
► GALVANISED adj. in disguise → L19 US sl.
► GALVANIZED YANKEE n. a southerner who took the oath to the North and served in the Union army → 1860 US Civil War usage
► GALVES n. spurs → 1945 US Western sl. (Bk.)
► GALVO n. galvanised iron → 1945 Aust. sl.
► GALWAY n. 1. a Catholic priest → 1891 American tramps’ sl.
n. 2. a style of facial whisker,  grown on the upper part of the cheek only → 1920 US
► GALWEGIAN adj. belonging to Galloway → 1870
n. an inhabitant or native of Galloway → 1774
► GALY adj. boisterous, stormy → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GALYANT adj. gallant; gay → 1860 Eng. dial.
► GALYARS adj. restive, in a temper → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GALYEW n. the slimy coating of green seaweed on an ebbed shore → 1936 Sc.