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gallied

gallied is the simple past and past participle of gally.

Meaning of gally

Verb

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

  1. (UK, dialectal) 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) […]

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Adjective

gallied (comparative more gallied, superlative most gallied)

  1. worried; flurried; frightened
    • Best, therefore, withhold any amazement at the strangely gallied whales before us, for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 87, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Forms of gallied

comparativemore gallied
superlativemost gallied

Questions about gallied

What does gallied mean?
Gallied means worried; flurried; frightened.
What is gallied the simple past and past participle of?
Gallied is the simple past and past participle of gally.
What part of speech is gallied?
Gallied is an adjective.

Words near gallied in the dictionary

  1. gallicolous
  2. gallicrow
  3. gallicrows
  4. gallid
  5. gallidermin
  6. gallied
  7. Gallien
  8. Gallienus
  9. gallies
  10. galliferous
  11. gallification

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