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gralloch

/ˈɡɹæləx/

gralloch noun: the entrails or offal of a dead deer, especially when removed. Also the entrails of other wild animals, when removed.

Noun

gralloch (uncountable)

  1. (Scotland, rare) The entrails or offal of a dead deer, especially when removed. Also the entrails of other wild animals, when removed.

Verb

gralloch (third-person singular simple present grallochs, present participle gralloching, simple past and past participle gralloched)

  1. (Scotland, rare) (transitive) To gut or eviscerate a deer, or other game animal.
    • A hand's as easy to cut as a finger for a man who has gralloched deer with a keen sgian-dubh.1896, Neil Munro, “The Red Hand”, in The Lost Pibroch, W. Blackwood and Sons
    • On our mattress in the secret nights, the girls whispered to me how he’d been watching her in a revival of Emma Bovary in an art-house in Berkeley and Tristessa’s eyes, eyes of a stag about to be gralloched, had fixed directly upon his and held them.1977, Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve
  2. The education committee report was always going to be the big one. Now it's out and ministers didn't entirely escape criticism. The HMI was, at last, deemed partly culpable. The SQA was predictably gralloched.
    • — The Herald (Scotland), December 9t 2000.

Forms of gralloch

third-person singular presentgrallochs
present participlegralloching
past participlegralloched
pastgralloched
present participlegrallochin
past participlegrallocht
pastgrallocht

Origin of gralloch

From Scottish Gaelic grealach (“entrails”), from Proto-Celtic *gre-lach, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“bowels”).

Questions about gralloch

What does gralloch mean?
Gralloch means the entrails or offal of a dead deer, especially when removed. Also the entrails of other wild animals, when removed.
What part of speech is gralloch?
Gralloch can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce gralloch?
Gralloch is pronounced /ˈɡɹæləx/.

Words near gralloch in the dictionary

  1. grallatory
  2. grallic
  3. gralline
  4. grallinid
  5. grallinids
  6. gralloch
  7. gralloched
  8. gralloching
  9. grallochs
  10. grallock
  11. grallocked

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