Noun: gully
| Singular | gully |
| Plural | gullies |
Sample Sentences
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A new drainage run and rainwater gullies are to be installed between the station and Oxford Road, with completion planned for December 1. [2021 June 16, “Network News: Drainage work at Guiseley station”, in RAIL, number 933, page 19:]
Nouns inflected like gully
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Origin uncertain. Possibly from a variant of Middle English golet (“esophagus, gullet”), from Old French goulet, from Latin gula (“throat”). Shift in meaning in Middle English to "water channel, ravine" may have been influenced by Middle English gylle, gille, galle (“deep narrow valley, ravine”); see gill. Compare Dutch geul.
2. Alternatively, from a diminutive of dialectal gull (“fissue, chasm”) + -y (diminutive suffix). See gull, gullick. See: Middle English Nouns '
golet', Latin Nouns '
gula', Dutch Nouns '
geul'.
Verbs referencing "gully"
German Nouns
Gully, French Nouns
gollé.