different between gally vs wally

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /w?li/
• Rhymes: -?li

Noun

wally (plural wallies)

1. (Britain, slang) a fool
2. (colloquial, London and Essex) a large pickled gherkin or cucumber

Verb

wally

1. (colloquial, obsolete, Essex) Alternative pronunciation (and hence spelling) of value
   • 1880, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: a story of the salt marshes

     Let them that wallys the sheep watch 'em.

Adjective

wally (not comparable)

1. (Of eyes) unusually pale; misaligned, sideways-looking, affected by strabismus.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XI, p. 179, [1]

     […] one of his eyes was wally, a condition common among the natives of the land. (Here the first meaning is intended, as indicated later in the text:) […] turned his one black eye on the kindly man […] (p. 183)

   • 2007, www.urbandictionary.com, [2]

     You are freaking me out with your wally eye. One of your eyes is doing its own thing.

See also

• walleye

Anagrams

• lawly, yaw'll