[Fictionary] GALLY ballot REMINDER
Fran Poodry
fpoodry at gmail.com
Sun Jan 12 23:42:35 UTC 2025
Don’t forget to vote on GALLY fictionitions!
I’ll try to tally these up over my lunch on Monday.
-Fran
On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM Fran Poodry <fpoodry at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/61107.Margaret_Mead>*
>
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