noun · verb · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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/ˈɡɹæləx/
/ˈɡɹælək/
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noun
Meaning 1
The entrails or offal of a dead deer, especially when removed. Also the entrails of other wild animals, when removed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, rare, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 2
(transitive) To gut or eviscerate a deer, or other game animal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, rare
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verb
Meaning 3
The education committee report was always going to be the big one. Now it's out and ministers didn't entirely escape criticism. The HMI was, at last, deemed partly culpable. The SQA was predictably gralloched.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
— The Herald (Scotland), December 9t 2000.
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History
Etymology
From Scottish Gaelic grealach (“entrails”), from Proto-Celtic *gre-lach, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵher- (“bowels”).