gallous
Britishadjective
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He used to know you when he was in service at the H——s, and speaks of you as being then "a gallous young hound," whatever that may mean.
From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Laurence Housman
Father Reilly's after reading it in gallous Latin, and "It's come in the nick of time," says he; "so I'll wed them in a hurry, dreading that young gaffer who'd capsize the stars."
From The Playboy of the Western World by J. M. (John Millington) Synge
Ah, you'll have a gallous jaunt I'm saying, coaching out through Limbo with my father's ghost.
From The Playboy of the Western World by J. M. (John Millington) Synge
You must find me somebody who was a "gallous young hound" in the days of his youth—Crossjay, for instance:—there!
From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Laurence Housman
I imagine "gallous" to be a rustic Lewis Carroll compound, made up in equal parts of callousness and gallantry, which most boys are, at some stage of their existence.
From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Laurence Housman
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