galeny
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
galeny (plural galenies)
- (UK, archaic, West Country) A guinea fowl.
- 1829, Caroline Bowles Southey, Chapters on Churchyards, page 114:
- From the dairy we passed into the poultry-yard; and there I was introduced to a train of milk-white turkeys, and fowls of the same colour, a few bantams, and three galenies, Mrs. Helen's especial favourites, […]
References edit
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary