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Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Gallus
Fourteenth in a series
gallus
(ga·luss) Dialect, chiefly Scot ~adj.
1. self-confident, daring, cheeky.
2. stylish, impressive (esp. Glasgow “He’s pure gallus, by the way“).
3. Orig. derogatory, meaning wild; a rascal; deserving to be hanged (from the gallows).
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- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Mauchit
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Braw
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Glaikit
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Besom
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Dreich
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Crabbit
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Fitba’
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Scunner
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Laldie
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Canny
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Fankle
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Drookit
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Wabbit
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Gallus
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Bourach
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Teuchter
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Drouth
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Stramash
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Blether
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Couthie
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Birl
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Thrawn
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Greet
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Skiver
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Wheesht
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Fouter
- Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Eejit
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thansk for not only a trip down memory lane but laughs…many thanks – these were words I heard growing up, used daily, and still discussed over dinner with the family.
I think it much more likely that “gallus” is from the French word “gallante” meaning fashionable.