Gallowa

• 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, galloway, garron, 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, 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

1. Galloway, a region in Scotland.

   Coordinate term: Dumfries an Gallowa

   • 1806, The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, Poerty - THE HILLS O' GALLOWA', page 288:

     ... Ye powers wha rowe this yirthen ba', An' O sae blythe through life I'll steer Amang the hills o' Gallowa'. ...

   • 1831, Allan Cunningham, Fraser's magazine for town and country, 1830-1869, THE BIRD AND EGG.--A TALE., page 693:

     ... And sic a hill! high, large, and round! The three times sifted snaw, Ne'er shone sae white on ony hill, In all wide Gallowa. ...

• Dumfries and Galloway
• Dumfries an Gallowa
• Scotland

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