Define:Gralloch
Scots
eeditEtymologie
eeditFrae Scots Gaelic greallach (“the harigals o a deer”).
Verb
eeditgralloch (third-person singular simple present grallochs, present participle grallochin, simple past an past participle gralloched, grallocht)
- [1] (transitive) tae tak the harigals out o a deid deer[1]
- A hand's as easy to cut as a finger for a man who has gralloched deer with a keen sgian-dubh.
- — Neil Munro: The Red Hand[2]
- A hand's as easy to cut as a finger for a man who has gralloched deer with a keen sgian-dubh.
- [2] (transitive, figurative) tae sheuch intil or tuim the intimmers out o a thin[3]
- The education committee report was always going to be the big one. Now it's out and ministers didn't entirely escape criticism. The HMI was, at last, deemed partly culpable. The SQA was predictably gralloched.
- — The Herald (Scotland), December 9t 2000.[4]
- But I'm going to call up another man who I know can also dae it, he's Alan Siller, he's grallocht the haggis the nicht already
- — Charles Birnie, 1994, Allan's Hill Age Concern Burns Night transcript[5]
- The education committee report was always going to be the big one. Now it's out and ministers didn't entirely escape criticism. The HMI was, at last, deemed partly culpable. The SQA was predictably gralloched.
Conjugation
eeditConjugation o gralloch | ||||
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Infinite forms | ||||
infinitive | (fir tae) gralloch | |||
present participle | grallochin | |||
past participle | gralloched, grallocht | |||
Finite forms | ||||
simple present | narrative present | simple past | ||
first-person singular | A | gralloch, grallochs[N 1] | grallochs | gralloched, grallocht |
seicont-person singular | ye/you | |||
seicont-person sg. intimate[N 2] | du/thoo | grallochs | ||
third-person singular | he/she/(h)it | grallochs | ||
first-person plural | we | gralloch, grallochs[N 1] | ||
seicont-person plural | yese/youse | |||
seicont-person pl. collective[N 3] | awyese/awyouse | |||
third-person plural | thay | gralloch, grallochs[N 1] | ||
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In ither leids
eedit- Scots Gaelic: greallach
- German: etw. aufbrechen
- Inglis: eviscerate, disembowel
- Italian: sventrare
References
eedit- ↑ "Dictionary of the Scots Language:: SND :: gralloch". Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ↑ Munro, Neil (1896). "The Red Hand". The Lost Pibroch. W. Blackwood and Sons.
- ↑ "Dictionary of the Scots Language:: SND :: sndns1824". Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ↑ "Dictionary of the Scots Language:: SND :: sndns1824". Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ↑ "NEFA - Banff and Buchan Collection - Tape transcription". www.nefa.net. Retrieved 4 December 2020.