galloway

See also: Galloway

English

Illustration of a Galloway Pony from 1842

Etymology

Etymology tree

Scottish Gaelic Gall-Ghàidhealaibhbor.

English Galloway

English galloway

From Galloway, Scotland, where they were bred.

Noun

galloway (plural galloways)

1. A kind of small horse originally bred in Galloway, Scotland.

   Synonyms: cuddy, gallowa, garron, garran, pony

   • 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 164:

     but if you have no mercy upon them, yet ſpare your ſelfe, leſt you bejade the good Galloway, your owne opiniaſter Wit,

   • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 173:

     ‘Don't you remember a famous trotting galloway I had, two years ago, that I bought at Tattersall's, that would go fifteen miles within the hour?’

Derived terms

• gallowa

See also

• Gallowa