galore

From Irish go leor and Scottish Gaelic gu leòr, gu leòir (“enough, plenty”), cf. Manx dy lhiooar, from Old Irish co, cu (“to, toward”), from Proto-Celtic *kom (“with”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”) + Old Irish leor, dative of léir (“visible, perceptible, clear, distinct, clever, explicit, evident (older assiduous, earnest, careful, zealous)”).

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɡəˈloː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡəˈlɔɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡəˈlɔː/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ɡəˈlo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ɡəˈloə/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: ga‧lore

galore (not comparable)

1. (postpositive) In abundance.

   After the shipwreck there was whisky galore to be had for the taking.

   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 564:

     […] But when I had bestridden the plank, quoth I to myself, "Thou deserveth all that betideth thee. All this is decreed to me of Allah (whose name be exalted!), to turn me from my greed of gain, whence ariseth all that I endure, for I have wealth galore."

• galero, gaoler, goaler