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 Gallied, ppl. adj. (old).—'Harried; vexed; over-fatigued; perhaps like a galley-slave' (Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.). In Australia, frightened.

Gallinipper, subs. (West Indian).—A large mosquito.

1847. Porter, Big Bear, etc., p. 119. In the summer time the lakes and snakes musketoes and gallinippers, buffalo gnats and sandflies prevented he Injins from gwine through the country.

1888. Lippincott's Magazine. I thought the gallinippers would fly away with me before the seed ticks had sucked all my blood.

Gallipot, subs. (common).—An apothecary.

1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v

1836. M. Scott, Cringle's Log, ch. xiv. In truth, sir, I thought our surgeon would be of more use than any outlandish gallipot that you could carry back.

1848. Thackeray, Book of Snobs, ch. xxvii. 'Half a-dozen little gallipots,' interposed Miss Wirt.

English Synonyms.—Bolus; bum-tender; clyster-giver; clyster-pipe; croaker; crocus; drugs; Ollapod (from a creation of the Younger Coleman's); gage-*monger; Galen (from the great physician); jakes-provider; pill-box; pill-merchant; pills; squirt; salts-and-senna; squire of the pot.

French Synonyms.—Un mirancu (obsolete: a play on mire en cul, respecting which cf., Béralde, in Molière, Malade Imaginaire: 'On voit bien que vous n'avez pas accoutumé de parler à des visages'); un limonadier de postérieurs (popular: cf., 'bum-tender'; un flûtencul (common); un insinuant (popular: one who 'insinuates' the clyster-pipe).

German Synonyms.—Rokeach, Raukeach, or Raukack (from the Hebrew).

Gallivant, verb. (colloquial).—1. To gad about with, or after, one of the other sex; to play the gallant; to 'do the agreeable.'

1838. Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, ch. lxiv. You were out all day yesterday, and gallivanting somewhere, I know.

1862. H. Beecher Stowe, in The Independent, 27 Feb. What business had he to flirt and gallivant all summer with Sally Kittridge?

1886. Hawley Smart, Struck Down, xi. The ramparts is a great place for gallivanting.

1863. H. Kingsley, Austin Elliot, i., 112. It's them gals, Mr. Austin. Come in afore she sees you, else she'll not be at home. She is gallivanting in the paddock with Captain Hertford.

2. (colloquial).—To trapes (q.v.); to fuss; to bustle about.

1859. Boston Post, 10 Dec. Senator Seward is gallivanting gaily about Europe. Now at Compiègne, saying soft things to the Empress and studying despotism, now treading the battle-field of Waterloo, then back at Paris, and so on.

1871. C. D, Warner, My Summer in a Garden. More than half the Lima beans, though on the most attractive sort of poles, which budded like Aaron's rod, went galivanting off to the neighboring grape trellis.

1848. Ruxton, Far West, p. 145. The three remaining brothers were absent from the Mission Fray Jose, gallivanting at Pueblo de los Angeles.

1863. Norton, Lost and Saved, p. 255. A pretty story, if, when her services were most wanted by the person who paid for them, she was to be gadding and gallivanting after friends of her own.

1865. M. E. Braddon, Henry Dunbar, ch. x. A pretty thing it would have been if your pa had come all the way from India to find his only daughter gallivanting at a theaytre.

1870. London Figaro, 6 Dec. You're never content but when you're galavanting about somewhere or other.