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gloy verb to laugh: I hope the country hantle wunna be gloyin at ye or making a cull of yer nesis for mangan to us an us-like. [I hope the settled people won’t be laughing at you or making a fool of you for talking to us and people like us.] 20. Compare goyin etymology: origin obscure; only attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies note:

Canadian Paul Pope (2013) attests the form gloye ‘to laugh’.