different between gayly vs gally

English

Etymology

gay +? -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?li/

Adverb

gayly (comparative more gayly, superlative most gayly)

1. (uncommon, dated) Cheerfully; in a gay manner.
   • 1958, Printers' Ink (volume 262, page 28)

     Gayly-dressed mavournins and blaring bands stepped lively along Fifth Avenue.

Usage notes

• The meaning "in a homosexual manner", while an obvious derivation of the current primary meaning of gay, rarely appears, and when it does, it is typically used with an awareness of its rarity. In reference to cheerfulness or joyfulness, gaily is much more common.

Homophones

• Gaely, Gæly (neogaelic feminine name)

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