Etymology From Middle English gally, from Old English gealliġ (“sour, sharp, bitter, sad”), equivalent to gall + -y.
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Characterised by or resembling gall; bitter.
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 […].1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXV:
gally
verb
Etymology See gallow (transitive verb).
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UK, Dialectal To frighten, spook; to appall; 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) […]