different between gally vs gelly

English

Etymology 1

Noun

gally (plural gallies)

1. Archaic form of galley.
   • 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 200:

     In the Year 1746, an Indian of Buenos Ayres having been condemned to the Gallies at Cadiz, proposed to the Governor to purchase his Liberty by exposing his Life at a public Festival.

Etymology 2

From gall +? -y.

Adjective

gally (comparative more gally, superlative most gally)

1. Characterised by or resembling gall; bitter.
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXV:

     For by the Dart, which is likewise a pipe, is made a deep passage into the skin, and then by the anger of the Fly, is his gally poisonous liquor injected […].

Etymology 3

See gallow (transitive verb).

Verb

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

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To frighten; 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) […]

Etymology 4

gal +? -y

Noun

gally (plural not attested)

1. Diminutive of gal (“girl”)

Synonyms

• girlie

References

Anagrams

• gyall

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Slavic language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???j?]
• Rhymes: -?j?

Noun

gally (plural gallyak)

1. twig

Declension

See also

• Appendix:Hungarian words with ly

English

Noun

gelly (countable and uncountable, plural gellies)

1. Obsolete form of jelly.

Middle English

Noun

gelly

1. Alternative form of gele