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gallygaskins

gallygaskins is the alternative form of galligaskins.

Meaning of galligaskins

Noun

galligaskins pl (plural only)

  1. (archaic, historical, plural, plural-only) Large, loose breeches, fashionable in the 16th and 17th centuries.
    • He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather.1819 June 23, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Rip Van Winkle”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number I, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC...

Questions about gallygaskins

What is gallygaskins the alternative form of?
Gallygaskins is the alternative form of galligaskins.

Words near gallygaskins in the dictionary

  1. gallybaggers
  2. gallybeggar
  3. gallybeggars
  4. gallycrow
  5. gallycrows
  6. gallygaskins
  7. gallying
  8. gallynipper
  9. gallynippers
  10. gallypot
  11. gallypots

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