Meaning
2 senses(transitive)To wear away into a gully or gullies.
(obsolete)To flow noisily.
Examples
3 sentencesIt's near what looks like a little gully.
I fell over a ledge of rock into a gully below.
The gully had more plants than the rest of the desert because it occasionally filled with rain.
Origin
Origin uncertain. Possibly from a variant of Middle English golet (“esophagus, gullet”), fOrigin uncertain. Possibly from a variant of Middle English golet (“esophagus, gullet”), from Old French goulet, from Latin gula (“throat”). Shift in meaning in Middle English to "water channel, ravine" may have been influenced by Middle English gylle, gille, galle (“deep narrow valley, ravine”); see gill. Compare Dutch geul.
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Forms
gullies, gullying, gullied, gulliedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.