[Fictionary] GALLY ballot

[Fran Poodry]

Please send 1-point and 2-point votes by the morning of January 13.
I'm excited that there are two verbs and two adjectives among the usual
collection of nouns!
-Fran

GALLY

gally, v. to inscribe a possession with a name or other identifying
information as proof of ownership

gally, n. a Hungarian plant, Feketefeheria sopronensis, in the family

Aristolochiaceae, used in folk medicine.

gally, n. a perch with a vertical scrim beneath it, used in falconry.

gally, v. frighten, terrify

gally, n. a small, sharpened awl, used to create eyelets or perforation
vents in leather shoes or sneakers.

gally, adj. of paint, fractured by a network of small cracks.

gally, n. a silk and ivory flywhisk.

gally, adj. comfortable; just right. Likely shortened from "Goldilocks"
circa 1850.

gally, n. swagger, insolence.


-- 
*Fran Poodry (she/her)*
*Oregon, USA*



*“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” ― Margaret Mead
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