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Is gally a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word gally is a Scrabble US word. The word gally is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is gally a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word gally is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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Is gally a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word gally is a Words With Friends word. The word gally is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

GALLY,

4-letter words (4 found)

AGLY,ALLY,GALL,GYAL,

3-letter words (6 found)

ALL,GAL,GAY,LAG,LAY,YAG,

2-letter words (5 found)

AG,AL,AY,LA,YA,

You can make 16 words from gally according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of gally

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Definitions and meaning of gally

gally

Etymology 1

Noun

gally (plural gallies)

  1. Archaic form of galley.
Derived terms
  • galligaskins

Etymology 2

From gall +‎ -y.

Adjective

gally (comparative more gally, superlative most gally)

  1. Characterised by or resembling gall; bitter.

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, UK, 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

  • “gally”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • gyall

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *golь, a noun formed from *golъ (“bare, leafless”). Compare Czech hůl (“stick”), Old East Slavic голь (golĭ, “twig”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡɒjː]
  • Rhymes: -ɒjː

Noun

gally (plural gallyak)

  1. twig
    Holonyms: fa, bokor
    Coordinate terms: rügy, hajtás, vessző, ág, törzs

Declension

See also

  • gajra megy/vág (unrelated, though sometimes written gally(ra) due to an assumed relation)
  • Appendix:Hungarian words with ly

Further reading

  • gally in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*golь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 16

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