Define:Gralloch

Scots

Paintin o a body grallochin a deer.

Etymologie

Frae Scots Gaelic greallach (“the harigals o a deer”).

Verb

gralloch (third-person singular simple present grallochs, present participle grallochin, simple past an past participle gralloched, grallocht)

[1] (transitive) tae tak the harigals out o a deid deer

A hand's as easy to cut as a finger for a man who has gralloched deer with a keen sgian-dubh.

— Neil Munro: The Red Hand

[2] (transitive, figurative) tae sheuch intil or tuim the intimmers out o a thin

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.

— The Herald (Scotland), December 9t 2000.

But I'm going to call up another man who I know can also dae it, he's Alan Siller, he's grallocht the haggis the nicht already

— Charles Birnie, 1994, Allan's Hill Age Concern Burns Night transcript

Conjugation

Conjugation o gralloch
Infinite forms
infinitive	(fir tae) gralloch
present participle	grallochin
past participle	gralloched, grallocht
Finite forms
		simple present	narrative present	simple past
first-person singular	A	gralloch, grallochs	grallochs	gralloched, grallocht
seicont-person singular	ye/you
seicont-person sg. intimate	du/thoo	grallochs
third-person singular	he/she/(h)it	grallochs
first-person plural	we	gralloch, grallochs
seicont-person plural	yese/youse
seicont-person pl. collective	awyese/awyouse
third-person plural	thay	gralloch, grallochs

In ither leids

• Scots Gaelic: greallach
• German: etw. aufbrechen
• Inglis: eviscerate, disembowel
• Italian: sventrare