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gallus

gallus is the plural of gallu.

gallus is the alternative form of gallows.

Meaning of gallu

Noun

gallu (plural gallu or gallus)

  1. A great demon or devil of the ancient Mesopotamian Underworld.

Meaning of gallows

Adverb

gallows (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, colloquial) Utterly; very.
    • They've got a gallows bad reputation, but you know what a place the beach is for talking.1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá

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Noun

gallus (plural galluses)

  1. (US, dated, dialectal) One strap of a pair of galluses (suspenders).
    • […] left gallus of his suspenders […]2022, Ronald Kelly, The Saga of Dead-Eye, Book One: Vampires, Zombies, & Mojo Men

Forms of gallus

pluralgalluses

Words formed from gallus

Questions about gallus

What does gallus mean?
Gallus means one strap of a pair of galluses (suspenders).
What is gallus the plural of?
Gallus is the plural of gallu.
What part of speech is gallus?
Gallus is a noun.
What is the plural of gallus?
The plural of gallus is galluses.

Words near gallus in the dictionary

  1. Gallup polls
  2. Gallups
  3. galluptious
  4. Gallura
  5. Gallurese
  6. gallus
  7. gallused
  8. galluses
  9. Galluzzo
  10. Galluzzos
  11. gallwasp

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gallus (page history and authors); gallu (page history and authors); gallows (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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