English Explanatory Dictionary

gralloch

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The entrails or offal of a dead deer, especially when removed. Also the entrails of other wild animals, when removed.
verb
  1. (transitive) To gut or eviscerate a deer, or other game animal.
  2. The education committee report was always going to be the big one. Now it's out and ministers didn't entirely escape criticism. The HMI was, at last, deemed partly culpable. The SQA was predictably gralloched.

Pronunciation

/ˈɡɹæləx/ /ˈɡɹælək/

Word forms

gralloch grallochs gralloching gralloched

Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic grealach (“entrails”), from Proto-Celtic *gre-lach, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“bowels”).

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