Noun: gallowglass
| Singular | gallowglass |
| Plural | gallowglasses; gallowglass |
Sample Sentences
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The multiplying villanies of nature / Do swarm upon him--from the western isles/ Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied. [c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]
Nouns inflected like gallowglass
gallowglass,
secesh,
icefish,
ghostfish,
neon fish,
New English,
combfish,
zebrafish,
walking catfish,
rose fish,
granofels,
elephant trunkfish,
medusafish,
Mississippi catfish,
boxfish,
weeverfish,
greenfish,
stone fish,
stone-fish,
bannerfish, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Irish gallóglach (“foreign soldier”), from Gall (“foreigner, non-Gaelic person”) + óglách (“soldier”). See: Irish Nouns '
gallóglach'.