gollar, goller, v. Sc.
(ˈgɒlə(r))
Also guller.
[Echoic; cf. golly.]
1. intr. ‘To emit a guggling sound’ (Jam.).
| 1801 Hogg Scots Pastorals 21. 1826 G. Beattie John o' Arnha' Life (1863) 222 I'll gar ye gape, an' glowr, an' gollar. |
2. To utter loud but thick and scarcely articulate sounds; to shout. Also trans., to gollar out.
| 1826 J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 185 Gangs to..gollaring out geggery. 1856 Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 270, I..heard him gollaring at something. 1863 Robson Bards Tyne 107 She gollers and flays the lass oot ov her wits. 1895 Crockett Men of Moss Hags 69 Westerha' rode for⁓ward..‘gollering’ and roaring at the bit things. |
Hence ˈgollaring vbl. n. Also ˈgollar n.
| 1638–84 R. Law Mem. (1818) 192 note, Their voices were changed in their groanings and gollerings with pain of hunger. 1808 Edin. Even. Courant 16 June (Jam.), She heard three screams and a guller..The guller was a sound as if a person was choaking. |