different between golly vs gally

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???li/
• Rhymes: -?li

Etymology 1

Euphemism for God, dating from the 18th century. Possibly a compaction of “God?s body”.

Alternative forms

• gollies

Interjection

golly

1. (euphemistic) God! [From 1775.]
   • 1898, The Overland Monthly, page 511,

     “Golly! What would dad say if I did marry him?”

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:wow

Etymology 2

From golliwog.

Noun

golly (plural gollies)

1. Abbreviation of golliwog:
   1. A type of black rag doll.
      • 1985, New Society, Volumes 71-72, page 4,

        There are pictures of the original “gollywogg” (thus spelt) from Florence Upton?s 19th century children?s books; there are examples of anti-semitic Edwardian gollies with huge noses, and all sorts of other curiosities.

      • 2007, Richard Littlejohn, Littlejohn?s Britain, page 162,

        The Golliwog Squad was also making itself busy in Worthing, Sussex. Police said they were treating as a matter of ‘priority’ a complaint about gollies being displayed in a local store. Owner John Scadgell faced charges under Section 2 of the Public Order Act, which makes it an offence to exhibit anything which could be considered threatening, abusive or insulting.

   2. (offensive, ethnic slur) Any dark skinned person.
      • 2005, Richard Snailham, The Blue Nile Revealed: The Story of the Great Abbai Expedition, 1968, page 217,

        “Bloody gollies!” muttered David Bromhead, provoked by the assault into bitter xenophobia.

      • 2008, Theo van Leeuwen, Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Analysis, page 137,

        […] poked fun at the American “fashion” of “political correctness” and reassured viewers that gollies and black minstrel shows are just good, old-fashioned, innocent fun.

Etymology 3

Nonstandard diminutive of galosh.

Noun

golly (plural gollies)

1. (Britain) A galosh.

Etymology 4

Possibly from Goliath.
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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.
   • 2010, Marion Houldsworth, The Morning Side of the Hill: Growing Up in Townsville in World War II, revised edition, page 113,

     When he saw what was happening he threw down his bag, gollied up some phlegm, and spat into the sand.

Noun

golly (plural gollies)

1. (Australian slang, juvenile) Chewing gum.
2. (Australian slang, juvenile) Saliva or phlegm.

   hack up a golly

Derived terms

• golly pot

Etymology 5

Possibly from the Swahili for "expensive," [ghali] uttered when a potential slave buyer thought a slave's price was too high.

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