gallowa

• galloway (variant spelling, dialectal)

From Middle English Galloway, originally denoting a small horse or pony bred in Galloway, a region of southwest Scotland. The term spread into northern English and Geordie dialects, where it was shortened to gallowa.

• (UK, Geordie, Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaləwə/
• Hyphenation: gal‧lo‧wa

gallowa (plural gallowas)

1. (Geordie, Northern England) pony, or a small horse.

   Synonyms: cuddy, horse, nag, pony

   • 1981, Raphael Samuel, People's History and Socialist Theory, →ISBN, page 65:

     Young lads who've never seen a gallowa (pony)...

   • 2005, Bill Griffiths, A dictionary of north east dialect, →ISBN, page 65:

     ..."galloways, a small, but spirited, breed of horses, from Galloway, a district of country in Scotland, famed for rearing them" Brockett Newc & Nth 1829; "A pony became a 'gallowa"...

• equine
• horse

• pony
• gallowa
• nag (dialectal)
• cuddy (Northern English, Scots, “donkey”)

• Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin, “gallowa”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[1], archived from the original on 5 September 2024.
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[2]

• gallawa (dialectal, variant spelling)
• Gallowa (dialectal, variant spelling)
• Galloway (dialectal, variant spelling)

Borrowed from English Galloway, originally referring to the district in southwest Scotland where such small horses and cattle were bred. Shortened in Scots speech to gallowa.

• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaləwə/
• Hyphenation: gal‧lo‧wa

gallowa (plural gallowas)

1. Pony or a small wiry horse bred in Galloway.

   Synonyms: cuddie, garron, Gallowa, galloway, horce, hors, powny

   • 2020, Anastasija Ropa, Timothy Dawson, The Horse in Premodern European Culture, →ISBN, page 238:

     … to be the closest living relatives of the now extinct Galloway, still use the term either in conjunction (Dales Galloway, Fell Galloway) or as a stand-alone (including the forms Gallowa and …

2. A stocky, hornless breed of black cattle.

   Synonyms: beast, cou, Gallowa, Galloway, nowt

   • 2023, Ian Mitchell, Mountain Footfalls, →ISBN, page 238:

     …But a little diversion was provided once back at the car when we saw a herd of Gallowa 'belties'…

• horse
• cou
• kintra

• pony
• cattle

• “gallowa”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.