one-gallusadj.

Brit.

/ˈwʌnɡaləs/, U.S.

/ˈwənˌɡæləs/

Forms: 1800s one-gallows, 1800s– one-gallus.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: one adj., gallows n.

Etymology: < one adj. + gallows n. (see forms and sense 6 at that entry). Compare slightly later one-gallused adj.

U.S. regional (southern and south Midland). Usually derogatory.

Poor; lower-class; common; rustic.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [adjective]

churlisha1000

ruric1488

rural1513

rusticalc1525

peasant1550

peasantly1569

clownish1570

rustic1576

shepherdly1579

russet1598

clownical1614

clown-likea1640

nut-brown1648

countrified1653

high-shoon1654

Corydonical1656

high-shod1656

sylvatic1661

villatic1671

russet-coated1683

one-gallus1881

one-gallused1887

red-necked1896

rube1898

takhaar1899

backwoodsya1910

swede-bashing1936

backwoodish1946

1881 Cent. Mag. Nov. 158/2 An' I know by his clo'es an' his snuff-cullud face Da he comes from a scrubby an' one-gallus race.

1933 T. R. Williamson Woods Colt 168 What the hell air you Claggetts, anyhow, nothin' but a one-gallus family, an you never will be nothin' else.

1953 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 22 479/1 He described the funeral of a ‘one-gallus’ man in Pickens County, Georgia, to illustrate the plight of the Old South.

1999 D. M. Kennedy Freedom from Fear ix. 283 In the blighted rural districts where one-gallus farmers stirred to the dream of Every Man a King, were the makings of a permanent Democratic political majority.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	one-gallus
释义	one-gallusadj. Brit. /ˈwʌnɡaləs/, U.S. /ˈwənˌɡæləs/ Forms: 1800s one-gallows, 1800s– one-gallus. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: one adj., gallows n. Etymology: < one adj. + gallows n. (see forms and sense 6 at that entry). Compare slightly later one-gallused adj. U.S. regional (southern and south Midland). Usually derogatory. Poor; lower-class; common; rustic. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [adjective] churlisha1000 ruric1488 rural1513 rusticalc1525 peasant1550 peasantly1569 clownish1570 rustic1576 shepherdly1579 russet1598 clownical1614 clown-likea1640 nut-brown1648 countrified1653 high-shoon1654 Corydonical1656 high-shod1656 sylvatic1661 villatic1671 russet-coated1683 one-gallus1881 one-gallused1887 red-necked1896 rube1898 takhaar1899 backwoodsya1910 swede-bashing1936 backwoodish1946 1881 Cent. Mag. Nov. 158/2 An' I know by his clo'es an' his snuff-cullud face Da he comes from a scrubby an' one-gallus race. 1933 T. R. Williamson Woods Colt 168 What the hell air you Claggetts, anyhow, nothin' but a one-gallus family, an you never will be nothin' else. 1953 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 22 479/1 He described the funeral of a ‘one-gallus’ man in Pickens County, Georgia, to illustrate the plight of the Old South. 1999 D. M. Kennedy Freedom from Fear ix. 283 In the blighted rural districts where one-gallus farmers stirred to the dream of Every Man a King, were the makings of a permanent Democratic political majority. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1881
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