gallish

To be without malice, rancour, heat, and envy; -- in elephante melancholia transit in nutrimentum corporis: every gallish inclination, if any were, should tend to the good of the whole body -- the commonwealth.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831 Various

The "poor smooth, gallish-looking creatur '" he addressed was a well-built young fellow of seventeen, with no more effeminacy in his appearance than is visible in a lad balanced by nature just on that edge of life where we rest for a short space uneasily, bidding good-bye to boyhood so eagerly, before stepping boldly forward, and with flushed face and flashing eyes feeling our muscles and the rough hair upon our cheeks and chins, and saying, in all the excitement of the discovery of that El Dorado time of life, "At last I am a man!"

Menhardoc George Manville Fenn 1870

Co'rn'all, the finest country in all England, and ain't you going to grow into a Cornishman, as all old books says is giants, when you've left off being a poor smooth, soft-roed, gallish-looking creatur ', same as you are now? "

Menhardoc George Manville Fenn 1870