gal
pronunciation
How to pronounce gal in British English:
UK [gæl]
How to pronounce gal in American English:
US [ɡæl]
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- Noun:
- United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters
- a unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo)
- alliterative term for girl (or woman)
Word Origin
- gal (n.)
- slang pronunciation of girl, 1795, originally noted as a vulgarism (in Benjamin Dearborn's "Columbian Grammar"). Compare gell, 19c. literary form of the Northern England dialectal variant of girl, also g'hal, the girlfriend of a b'hoy (1849). Gal Friday is 1940, in reference to "Robinson Crusoe."
Example
- 1. On january 26 , 1972 our gal was working an extra shift due to a clerical error .
- 2. There 's nothing worse than a serious , sensitive ponytail guy or gal with no sense of irony or the absurd .
- 3. Either you 're sorely underestimating his intelligence or you need to ask yourself , what in the world is a smart gal like you doing with a fool like him ?
- 4. Also much discussed were " tin soldiers " by ala younis , a jordanian , and " historical record archive " by dani gal , an israeli artist .
- 5. But for every larry ellison , there are hundreds , perhaps even thousands , of nice-guy / gal business leaders whose good character makes people want to associate with them .