gollargollerv.
/ˈɡɒlə/, U.S. /ˈɡɑlər/, Scottish English /ˈɡɔlər/ Scottish.
1. intransitive. ‘To emit a guggling sound’ (Jamieson).
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1801 J. Hogg Sc. Pastorals 21.
1818 G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (ed. 2) 28 I'll gar you gape, and glowr, and gollar.
2. To utter loud but thick and scarcely articulate sounds; to shout. Also transitive, to gollar out.
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1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxvii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 95 Gangs to..gollaring out geggery.
1856 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 270 I..heard him gollaring at something.
1863 J. P. Robson Songs Bards of Tyne 107 She gollers and flays the lass oot ov her wits.
1895 S. R. Crockett Men of Moss-hags 69 Westerha' rode for~ward..‘gollering’ and roaring at the bit things.
Derivatives
ˈgollaring n.
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1732 P. Walker Some Remarkable Passages Life & Death D. Cargill 24 Their Voices were changed in their Gronings and Gollerings with Pain of Hunger.
ˈgollar n.
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1808 Edinb. Evening Courant 16 June She heard three screams and a guller..The guller was a sound as if a person was choaking.
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