GALLY

Definitions: GALLY

GALLY

Adjective

1. Like gall; bitter as gall.

Noun

1. See Galley, n., 4.

Transitive verb

1. To frighten; to worry.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "GALLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Crosswords: GALLY

English words defined with "GALLY": Gallow. (references)

Non-English Usage: "GALLY" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Hungarian (bough, snub, spray, sprig, twig).

The following table summarizes the usage of "GALLY" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Gally	Last name	170	43,727
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "GALLY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		鮮艷 (bright-colored, gally-colored). (various references)

Pig Latin		allygay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "GALLY": gallying. (additional references)
	Words ending with "GALLY": centrifugally, conjugally, extralegally, frugally, fugally, illegally, legally, prodigally, regally, ultracentrifugally, vagally, viceregally. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-l-l-y"
	-1 letter: agly, ally, gall.
	-2 letters: all, gal, gay, lag, lay.
	-3 letters: ag, al, ay, la, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-l-l-y"
	+1 letter: argyll, galley, gladly.
	+2 letters: agilely, allergy, allying, argylls, fugally, gallery, galleys, gallfly, gyrally, langley, largely, legally, regally, vagally.
	+3 letters: algology, allaying, allegory, allogamy, alloying, ballyrag, bullyrag, dallying, frugally, gallying, genially, glassily, globally, gravelly, gullably, lallygag, langleys, laryngal, legality, lollygag, malignly, plaguily, playgirl, polygala, rallying, sallying, signally, slangily, tallying, vulgarly.
	+4 letters: agelessly, allegedly, angularly, ballyrags, blazingly, bullyrags, darlingly, digitally, elegantly, failingly, flamingly, flaringly, gainfully, gallantly, gallantry, gallingly, geminally, generally, genically, genitally, glacially, glaringly, gradually, haltingly, haplology, hypallage, illegally, laggardly, lallygags, languidly, laryngals, laryngeal, lastingly, laughably, lingually, logically, lollygags, magically, playgirls, polygalas, polygonal, rallyings, regularly, scallywag, vaginally, villagery.
	+5 letters: alarmingly, alkylating, alluringly, alogically, angelology, bafflingly, balneology, clankingly, conjugally, dazzlingly, diagonally, drawlingly, eyeballing, flaggingly, flagrantly, galactosyl, gallerying, galleryite, germinally, gesturally, ghastfully, glaciology, gladsomely, glancingly, gloatingly, gothically, gracefully, gratefully, hypallages, illegality, integrally, laryngeals, laughingly, logicality, lullabying, malacology, marginally, metallurgy, misallying, obligately, originally, palynology, plangently, pleadingly, pleasingly, prodigally, pyrogallol, ramblingly, rattlingly, regionally, sagittally, scallywags, singularly, slantingly, slashingly, sluggardly, surgically, syllabling, tallyhoing, tragically, trigonally, vaultingly, vigilantly, virginally.
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