gallous
Britishadjective
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An Irishman likes to be thought a gallous fellow.
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My Dearest: See what an effect your "gallous young hound" episode has had on me.
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He was a "gallous chap" in his youth, so said my grandmother, with a great love of good clothes and gunpowder.
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Ah, you'll have a gallous jaunt I'm saying, coaching out through Limbo with my father's ghost.
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You must find me somebody who was a "gallous young hound" in the days of his youth—Crossjay, for instance:—there!
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