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gollying

gollying is the present participle and gerund of golly.

Meaning of golly

Verb

golly (third-person singular simple present gollies, present participle gollying, simple past and past participle gollied)

  1. (Australia, juvenile) To spit; to force up phlegm from one's throat.
    • When he saw what was happening he threw down his bag, gollied up some phlegm, and spat into the sand.2010, Marion Houldsworth, The Morning Side of the Hill: Growing Up in Townsville in World War II, revised edition, page 113

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Questions about gollying

What is gollying the present participle and gerund of?
Gollying is the present participle and gerund of golly.

Words near gollying in the dictionary

  1. gollumsharks
  2. golly
  3. golly gee
  4. golly gee willikers
  5. golly gosh
  6. gollying
  7. gollywog
  8. gollywogs
  9. Gollywood
  10. Golmud
  11. Golob

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gollying (page history and authors); golly (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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