adj. or adv. (American).—An indefinite superlative. Cf., ABOUT-EAST.
1884. S. L. CLEMENS (‘Mark Twain’), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, xxxvii. Then she grabbed up the basket and slammed it across the house and knocked the cat GALLEY-WEST.
1887. F. FRANCIS, Jun., Saddle and Mocassin, x. 199. I have seen the Escurial, and Versailles, and the Vatican, and the Dolme Bagtche, and Windsor Castle, and lots of those little dug-outs ‘over there,’ but I’ll be darned if this establishment of yours, Huse, don’t knock any one of them GALLYWEST!—GALLYWEST, sir, that’s what it does! It just dumps the filling out them!
