gilly
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A "gilly" is a man attendant in the Scottish Highlands.
From Watch Yourself Go By by Ben W. Warden
"VOTO A DIOS! as the Spaniard says," exclaimed the Major, "and some beggarly gilly may get it while I stand prating here!"
From A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott
"Ne'er sae weel a' my life," quoth the gilly.
From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various
"Don't pull, madam," shouted the gilly, and it was well he did, for I was just on the point of giving an awful jerk to get the fish loose from Jone.
From Pomona's Travels A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former Handmaiden by Frank Richard Stockton
The politician's gilly tore himself away from his friends.
From Different Girls by Various
The child of Imelda Marcos and Dr. Seuss would collect mukluks, galoshes and gillies and high-tops, and also some moccasins, chukkas and flip-flops.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2017
George VI rolled out of Balmoral Castle to startle Aberdeenshire gillies with his new "shooting brake," a luxurious caterpillar-wheeled contraption with sliding win dows, special gun racks, facilities for serving lunch to ten guests.
From Time Magazine Archive
Knowing how dangerous mumps can be to a full grown male, Her Majesty ordered all mumpsful Scottish gillies tucked promptly into bed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tenants, servants, and "gillies" on the Balmoral, Agergeldie and Birknall estates were bidden by their Britannic Majesties to a ball.
From Time Magazine Archive
We dress for dinner, and live much as at a shooting-lodge in the Highlands, with stock-riders for gillies.
From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood
His entire demeanour said, "To think that I should have carried the gaff, and gillied good salmon fishermen for years, and be degraded into this mean tomfoolery."
From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by William Senior
