▪ I. gilravage, n. Sc.
(gɪlˈrævɪdʒ)
Forms: 8 gulravage, 9 gilravage, -ravatch, -raivitch, galravage, (goravich, girrebbage).
[? f. the vb.]
Riotous or uproarious conduct; noisy romping.
| 1785 Burns Ep. to M'Math 3 While at the stook the shearers cow'r..Or in gulravage rinnin scowr To pass the time [etc.]. 1818 Edin. Mag. Sept. 155 Muckle din an' loud gilraivitch was amang them, gaffawan an' lauchan. 1863 R. Paul Let. in Mem. xviii. (1872) 269 An after-dinner galravage with the children. |
▪ II. gilˈravage, v. north. and Sc.
Also gill-, gal-, guleravage, gilraivitch, galravitch, (-atch, -erge), -revitch.
[Of unknown origin; ? connected with ravage.]
1. intr. To feast or make merry in an excessive degree or in a riotous fashion.
| 1822 Galt Provost xliii. 316 At all former..banquets, it had been the custom..to galravitch both at hack and manger, in a very expensive manner to the funds of the town. 1887 J. Service Life Dr. Duguid iii. 16 Galrevitchin' at my grandfather's honey-kaimbs, I had gotten the colic. |
2. To gad about.
| 1863 Mrs. Gaskell Sylvia's L. (ed. 2) I. 108 This lass o' mine..thinks as because she's gone galraverging, I maun ha' missed her. |
Hence gilˈravaging vbl. n. Also gilˈravager.
| 1818 Scott Rob Roy xxiii, Ye had better stick to your auld trade o' theft-boot, black-mail, spreaghs, and gillravaging. Ibid., And wha's this?..Some gillravager that ye hae listed, I daur say. 1822 ― Nigel xxx, Our gracious master is auld, and was nae great gillravager amang the queans even in his youth. 1848 J. Ramsay Poems, Eglinton Park Meeting, Great Was the galravagin and fun. 1893 Northumbld. Gloss., Gilravishin, a tumult, a row. |