gralloch
English edit
Etymology edit
From Scottish Gaelic grealach (“entrails”), from Proto-Celtic *gre-lach, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“bowels”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gralloch (uncountable)
Verb edit
gralloch (third-person singular simple present grallochs, present participle gralloching, simple past and past participle gralloched)
- (Scotland, rare) To eviscerate a deer.
- 1977, Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve:
- On our mattress in the secret nights, the girls whispered to me how he’d been watching her in a revival of Emma Bovary in an art-house in Berkeley and Tristessa’s eyes, eyes of a stag about to be gralloched, had fixed directly upon his and held them.
- 2012, Simon Armitage, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight[1], page 64:
Further reading edit
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “gralloch”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[2], Stirling, →ISBN